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| Chinese mag takes sexy quake pics |
| 2008-05-22 |
| Still learning the rules, I guess. Beijing - A Chinese magazine has been shut down for printing pictures of scantily clad women posing in rubble for a special report on the country's devastating earthquake, officials said on Wednesday. The New Travel Weekly, a small lifestyle magazine, ran photos of sultry models in their underwear amid the debris in an issue that hit the stands on Monday - the first of three days of national mourning. The press and publication department of the southwestern city of Chongqing, where the magazine was based, said it decided to close the magazine down for "rectification". The department said the magazine "seriously violated propaganda discipline and went against social morals" and the report constituted an "extremely evil social influence." "If the outcome of the rectification is satisfactory, it is possible to reopen the magazine," an employee of the press and publication department with the family name Cai told AFP. "After all, only part of the staff made the decision to print that shoot. It wouldn't be fair to just close it for good." The company that manages The New Travel Weekly said it had sacked the magazine's managing editor, editor and deputy editor, state-run Xinhua news agency reported. China has seen an outpouring of emotion after the earthquake, which killed more than 41 000 people. The government declared official mourning for the first time since communist China's founder Mao Zedong died in 1976. As part of the official grief, it temporarily pulled entertainment networks off television and closed down cinemas, karaoke bars and other leisure venues. |
| Posted by:gorb |
| #10 'Rectification' sounds ... painful. Posted by: Seafarious I think "rectification" is where they "reeducate your ass" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-05-22 17:57 |
| #9 'Rectification' sounds ... painful. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2008-05-22 17:27 |
| #8 Do these corpses make my ass look fat? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-05-22 17:15 |
| #7 This is the positive side of media control - when they do something disgustingly tasteless, they get smacked down for it. Not really. When the Chinese government does disgustingly tasteless stuff, such as carving Falungong members up for organ sales or mowing them down with machine gun fire, nobody gets to say anything about it. The truly tasteless stuff has nothing to do with women in skimpy costumes. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2008-05-22 16:50 |
| #6 It seems like the Chinese version of 'social redeeming content'. And we all know were that went. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2008-05-22 14:35 |
| #5 Where the hell are the pictures? This is taking communism too far! |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-05-22 12:40 |
| #4 Yeah, as per link, that's not very tasteful... but, OTHO, imagine the endless, endless possibilities if they teamed up with the green helmet guy! |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2008-05-22 12:25 |
| #3 I need visual confirmation, thanks... Here you go Raj (Chinese language) |
| Posted by: tipper 2008-05-22 12:20 |
| #2 The New Travel Weekly, a small lifestyle magazine, ran photos of sultry models in their underwear I need visual confirmation, thanks... |
| Posted by: Raj 2008-05-22 08:42 |
| #1 This is the positive side of media control - when they do something disgustingly tasteless, they get smacked down for it. |
| Posted by: gromky 2008-05-22 07:06 |