MCLC: China Digital Times, Aug. 8

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From: Anne Henochowicz <anne at chinadigitaltimes.net>
Subject: China Digital Times, Aug. 8
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This Week on China Digital Times, August 8, 2014

http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2014/08/week-cdt-august-8-2014/

News that maligned socialite Guo Meimei admitted involvement in World Cup
gambling and working as a call girl stoked discussion on and off the
Internet. Netizens complained that the media devoted too much attention to
covering the young woman’s predicament with less airtime given to coverage
of a factory explosion in Jiangsu and an earthquake in Yunnan.

Other Chinese Internet users published artistic interpretations of Guo’s
latest tribulations. The censors issued a warning to media outlets to cool
down coverage on the Guo Meimei story and steer away from mention of the
Red Cross. CDT revisits Guo’s connection to the Red Cross with a word
sourced from the Grass Mud Horse Lexicon. Search terms on Weibo, linking
Guo to a Politburo Standing Committee member, were blocked.

In other news, censors stepped in to block discussion about a ten-province
investigation into “naked officials,” or government officials who send
their family and assets abroad.

Netizens expressed mixed reactions to a CCTV series that will air a 48
episode special about Deng Xiaoping.

Finally, a poem translated by CDT and said to be penned by a migrant
mother for her child at the start of the Beijing school year.

August 8, 2014 5:41 PM
Posted By: Meredith Godwin