China: Scrubbed News Digest · Global Voices
Jose Manuel Tesoro

danwei prints a post by a publishing consultant in Shenzhen on Cankao Xiaoxi, a Chinese-language digest of articles from world press formerly restricted to the Communist party elite but now available to the public.  “But there are three areas in which Cankao Xiaoxi takes liberties,” he writes. “It runs its own headlines, creates its own captions, and—this is the killer—deletes references deemed unbecoming to China’s image.