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Commies toss reporter for investigating their corruption
Posted on January 5, 2007 5:23 PM
A firing is better than a firing squad, and this guy in China probably had a better than average chance of getting the blindfold and cigarette treatment than the typical hack who does the investigative journalism thing.
Can you imagine if Dan Rather had been Chinese instead of American? The ChiComs would have got him long before he could report on fake but accurate documents about Hu Jintao's military service.
They did get Huang Liangtian though...
The editor of a popular Chinese magazine says he was fired after reporting on corruption, driving home the fact that new relaxed rules on foreign journalists do not apply to locals. Huang Liangtian had transformed Baixing (Popular Masses) into a widely read magazine with a fearless reputation for investigative reporting. Huang said: "I don't dare guess why the [Chinese communist] party sacked me, because I fear that they will accuse me of leaking state secrets."Agents of the government shut down Huang's publication's website last November, also because of those stinging accounts of corruption in government.
Let's hope Huang didn't have a Yahoo email account. Yahoo has had a hand in getting three journalists busted for leaking state secrets by giving The Man details about those journalists' emails.
Any chance we could get Congress to kick out a couple of illegal immigrants, preferably the ones who drive without using the brakes, rear-end people, and wouldn't you know it don't have insurance, and get Huang out of China? We've got plenty of government corruption that no one writes about here, so it's not like he wouldn't have a job opportunity.
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it's all good to report on a brave journalist fighting corruption in the chinese bureaucracy... for real... however, then you go take a cheap (and almost racist) shot at "illegal aliens"... i.e. labourers and consumers who are integral to the US economyy, and who all said and done are BETTER AMERICANS than the likes of GW bush or the minutemen militias...
yep... good job... illegal immigrants' alleged bad driving habits have soooo much to do with the workplace, and with communist corruption in china... KUDOS! keep up the fantastic yellow tabloid journalism...
and keep pretending you're in the same league as REAL journalists and commentators and bloggers... you do that... woooooot!!!
Posted on: January 8, 2007 6:42 AM
From TheFreeDictionary.com
il·le·gal
adj.
1. Prohibited by law.
2. Prohibited by official rules: an illegal pass in football.
3. Unacceptable to or not performable by a computer: an illegal operation.
n.
An illegal immigrant.
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Sorry, this blog is for the cheerful mocking of a) abusive entities that fire people or b) dumb people who merited their firing. Any accusations of journalism will be laughed at heartily from the comfort of my Futon Of Love.
Ha ha ha ha ha.
PS: Illegal refers to legal status, not race. Feel free to reread the helpful definition posted above.
Posted on: January 8, 2007 4:19 PM