Comments on: Hong Kong: SC group censored June 4th special feature

By: Spelunker

Spelunker — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:12:33 +0000

I have to disagree with Pugster. Please name one company in Hong Kong that has pulled ads from a magazine based on Internet fenqing activity. None? OK, try naming one magazine in Hong Kong whose bottom line was affected by fenqing activity.
June 4 is not taboo in Hong Kong media, but there are definitely those who choose not to cover it at all.
In the case of Esquire, I would suggest that perhaps it would be awkward to include Tiananmen commentary in a lifestyle magazine. I doubt it would fit in with the usual articles involving men’s fashion and the latest gadgetry. Yet the mere inclusion of the date “June 4″ initially made her big boss brittle.
Nevertheless I would still like to see if Oiwan Lam can get Daisy to publish the so-called “problematic” sentences here on Global Voices Online (and Danwei) so that we can see what all the excitement was over “incitement”

By: pug_ster

pug_ster — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:13:18 +0000

I have to agree with what the boss did as this is some form of self-censorship. I’m sure if they decided to put out this article, there would be alot of fengqings calling for protest to this magazine. Many companies would pull out their ads from this magazine and their bottom line would be affected. Many of their competitors would be more than happy to take up their market share.

By: 時未窮，「節」已現 at 聞.見.思.錄

時未窮，「節」已現 at 聞.見.思.錄 — Sun, 31 May 2009 16:49:50 +0000

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By: nulle

nulle — Sun, 31 May 2009 07:40:24 +0000

Either Daisy shut down her xanga site or xanga HK under pressure from you know what…

Suggest peoplel who thinks June-4th needs to be remember to NOT DO ANY BUSINESS with anyone or any organization censoring existance of June-4th. That’s only way those organization gets the message.

Start buying more NEXT magazines/newspapers, etc.

By: Winglok Hung

Winglok Hung — Sun, 31 May 2009 01:16:19 +0000

Can’t reach Daisy’s xanga either

By: Richard

Richard — Sat, 30 May 2009 15:42:19 +0000

Daisy’s site (link above) appears to have been closed down.

By: Spelunker

Spelunker — Sat, 30 May 2009 05:04:44 +0000

GlobalVoicesOnline! 好久不见！I have not been here since the 2008 Olympics.
Here’s my suggestion for Daisy:
Why not do something groundbreaking on June 4 and publish an article on press censorship in Hong Kong? That might be distinctive/outstanding (出色)
and disclose something new to the public. The fact that you can not do your little story is now the bigger story!

By: Oiwan Lam

Oiwan Lam — Sat, 30 May 2009 03:29:13 +0000

Apology and Correction: Yesterday I mixed up SC Media group with SCMP when I submitted this post in the title. Although I edited it in less than 20mins, the feed have spread through twitter and re-tweeted by many others. Even though globabvoices has deleted the original tweet and put up a correction, we cannot control the re-tweeted messages, which appeared in the twitter search. So here, I made this public apology and correction again.

By: Oiwan Lam

Oiwan Lam — Sat, 30 May 2009 03:10:12 +0000

hi C.A, thanks for pointing it out, i have edited daisy’s link: http://daisyne.xanga.com/sitemessage.aspx?user=daisyne

By: C.A. Yeung

C.A. Yeung — Sat, 30 May 2009 00:17:38 +0000

Oiwan,
Would it be possible for you to publish the link to Daisy’s blog post. All links in paragraph one only lead me to scmedia’s website.