-Caveat Lector- from: http://home.netvigator.com/~adamspub/punch.htm <A HREF="http://home.netvigator.com/~adamspub/punch.htm">The Daily Punch </A> ----- Edition No. 204:March 26th 1999 JONNERS IS BACK - BUT FOR HOW LONG? South China Morning Post front man Jonathan Fenby has written to us to deny the clearly observable about-turn of the Post on handling the terminology of the Tiananmen massacre. The extent of the Post's self-censorship on this matter has been catalogued in detail by NTSCMP, especially in 1997 editions. Fenby cites a word count which reveals, he says, wide use of the "m" word but does not respond to our queries to how many times "killings" or "incident" was used instead. There was also no response to our allegation that sub-editors were clearly advised to suppress "massacre" in favour of euphemisms. All in all it looks like another of Fenby's attempts to rehabilitate himself after completely losing it at the Post for the last two years, ruining what looked like a creditable journalistic CV. Perhaps someone has raised his record in Hong Kong during job interviews. Jonathan Fenby wrote: > Dear Dr Adams, > Congratulations, you've done it again in your Punch for March 23. > Library checks show that we have used 'massacre' to describe June 4 > more than 200 times since the handover. There is no editorial edict > banning the word as would be evident to anybody reading the paper. > Yours - Jonathan Fenby Welcome back. How was your talk with your successor? I have the news about the massacre directive direct from one of your sub-editors. How many times by the way did you mention "killings". This is old stuff. We have cited enough examples of the Post's self-censorship on this one. See our archives. Everyone else does! Jonathan Fenby wrote: > How do you square your 'directive' with the 200 mentions? Just give me a > straight answer for once, would you. Yours Jonathan Fenby The answer is that no one follows what you say, probably. But answer me this question - or maybe the new editor can - how many times did you say "killings"? My recollection of June 4, 97 or 98 is that there was only one mention of massacre - in an obscure position. As I say, this is all old hat. We can all do word counts. If we bother to save copies of the Post that is...Here in Tai Hang I'm the only one for miles not to put it straight under the dog. NEWS UPDATES WITHOUT THAT SPECIAL POST SPIN! China vetoes Khmer Rouge trials CIA probe in China spy row / The truth about Tibet - SUNDAY TELEGRAPH The British Labour government is selling Indonesia more weapons than the Tories did. Bill Gates can't save Hong Kong Telecom and interactive TV. New crackdown on Tibetan monks - BBC./ China denies nuclear secrets thefts - The Telegraph. Chinese call on leaders to atone for massacre - The Times /Daughter of Mao back in politics - The Telegraph. Jobless Chinese strike back with wave of bombing - Sunday Telegraph 1998 Human Rights Report - China /1998 Human Rights Report - Hong Kong - The US State Department. The Security Situation in the Taiwan Strait - The Pentagon. June 4th Tenth Anniversary Signature Drive English : http://www.democracy.org.hk/10th_June4/sign_drive_e.htm CONTACT THE EDITOR AT:[EMAIL PROTECTED] DON'T MISS YOUR DAILY PUNCH! MARCH 1999 Post about turns on Tiananmen terminology? / SCMP and the unrelenting search for non-news. / Post buries China rejection of Khmer Rouge trials. / Mind-numbers at the Post. / Postballs and the continuing SCMP naked Asian boys series. / Gung-ho journalism. / More Arseculli bullshit. / The best paper China business can buy. / Latest SCMP omissions and under-reporting. / Hong Kong Government soaks the poor. / Poor Stanley Ho. / SCMP listens to us. / Albright's annual ritual human rights protest. FEBRUARY 1999 HK GOVERNMENT INFORMATION SERVICE DECIDES POST NEWS AGENDA E-MAIL INTERCEPTION IN CHINA AND HONG KONG The Fabulous Li Clan - not corrupt at all. / More rules of self-censorship. / One guilty editor speaks to us. / The famine in North Korea claims 3 million and is ignored by Hong Kong media. / Year of the Yawn yet again. / Poverty is still the big issue in the Year of the Rabbit. / Fonoroff: definitely off. / Jonathan Fenby is better than Nembutal. / Moneyed Mandarin Of The Month: Lee Ngok. / More Post Humbug on Aw case. / Do the Chinese authorities organise piracy?/ New initiative on poverty. / China opposition party expands. JANUARY 1999 THE ROBERT KUOK EXPOSÉS The Fenby Laws of Self-Censorship / SCMP: Slow News Or What! / Spin Time for SCMP. / Hong Kong: Just Another Chinese City. / The 10 most significant news items about information freedom in China. / SCMP Editor "gagged" by management? / Thanks for everything, Mr Li Ka-shing. / Wally Wilde's World of Woofers. / SCMP "trustworthy": LOL. DECEMBER 1998 James Tien - Turd World Liberal. / PRC hails its human rights record and arrests democrats. / Self-censorship: the sin of omission. / The SCMP dutifully spins Internet dissident story. / Laugh of the Week: SCMP and the disastrous Hong Kong Institute of Education. / Hong Kong employers' brutal tactics. NOVEMBER 1998 OXFAM DECLARES ONE MILLION PEOPLE IN HONG ON POVERTY LINE Journalistic exploitation of children: SCMP's naked Asian boys series. / Radio Free Asia but not for Malaysia or Indonesia. / Hong Kong's Pauline Hanson. / Sunday Post Magazine: Strange But True. / SCMP suppresses news of arrested mainland dissident. / David Tang - "bumptious twat" but not so for fawning foodies! / SCMP pre-censors participants in Web site competition. / Why are Hong Kong women so hostile to their Filipino maids? OCTOBER 1998 Things Hong Kong Government Officials Say… And What They Really Mean / Salary of the Week: Hong Kong Institute of Education head looks for flunky. / Democracy and famines - a tale of two Nobel laureates. / Racist discourse surrounds "Chinese Nobel Prize winner". / Government to introduce genetically-modified taxi drivers. / We scoop the Post yet again... AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 1998 The SCMP has no comment on its bizarre and misleading web site visitor figures. / Post covers up Government leader's triad connections. PLUS POSTBALLS, WOOFER OF THE WEEK AND ALL THE LATEST SCMP BIAS AND CHINA BROWNNOSING! ENTER THE REST OF THE PAPER HERE ----- Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, Omnia Bona Bonis, All My Relations. Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End Kris DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. 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