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| Mail Online goes into partnership with The People's Daily of China | Mail Online goes into partnership with The People's Daily of China |
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| Mail Online has gone into partnership with The People’s Daily, the official organ of the Chinese communist party. | Mail Online has gone into partnership with The People’s Daily, the official organ of the Chinese communist party. |
| An article about an embarrassing Chinese hospital mistake was published on the Mail group’s Australian website with the tag, “This story was produced in partnership with The People’s Daily - people.cn.” | An article about an embarrassing Chinese hospital mistake was published on the Mail group’s Australian website with the tag, “This story was produced in partnership with The People’s Daily - people.cn.” |
| The point of the story was obvious from the lengthy headline, “Father-to-be waiting in hospital accidentally undergoes a haemorrhoid operation while his wife gives birth after mix-up by Chinese doctors”. | The point of the story was obvious from the lengthy headline, “Father-to-be waiting in hospital accidentally undergoes a haemorrhoid operation while his wife gives birth after mix-up by Chinese doctors”. |
| It concerned an incident at Shenyang Hunnan Xinqu hospital, which was originally reported on The People’s Daily website, “Man was mistaken for patient and ‘accidentally’ had hemorrhoid surgery while waiting outside for his newborn baby”. | It concerned an incident at Shenyang Hunnan Xinqu hospital, which was originally reported on The People’s Daily website, “Man was mistaken for patient and ‘accidentally’ had hemorrhoid surgery while waiting outside for his newborn baby”. |
| So how did the partnership between a capitalist media group renowned for its advocacy of press freedom and a newspaper in a communist country renowned for censorship come about? | So how did the partnership between a capitalist media group renowned for its advocacy of press freedom and a newspaper in a communist country renowned for censorship come about? |
| What does Mail Online’s editorial chief, Martin Clarke, have to say about it? And what does the Daily Mail’s editor, Paul Dacre, think? | What does Mail Online’s editorial chief, Martin Clarke, have to say about it? And what does the Daily Mail’s editor, Paul Dacre, think? |
| At the time of writing, there has been no response to a series of emailed questions to Clarke. Earlier, a Daily Mail spokesman responded to an inquiry by saying: “This is clearly something you should take up with Martin Clarke.” | At the time of writing, there has been no response to a series of emailed questions to Clarke. Earlier, a Daily Mail spokesman responded to an inquiry by saying: “This is clearly something you should take up with Martin Clarke.” |
| Perhaps they are embarrassed by having forged a link that amounts to something of a propaganda coup for China. Look how a major western capitalist media company is now cosying up to us. (And the link with the communist party paper gets no mention on the Daily Mail Australia Facebook page). | |
| I also note that the partnership is selective. A Mail Online story about a Chinese swimmer being tested positive for drugs, also using a Daily Mail Australia byline, did not carry the reference to The People’s Daily. | I also note that the partnership is selective. A Mail Online story about a Chinese swimmer being tested positive for drugs, also using a Daily Mail Australia byline, did not carry the reference to The People’s Daily. |
| Then again, it is just the kind of story that would fall foul of Chinese censors, is it not? And what real benefit is it for Mail Online, because the story was not even a scoop. | Then again, it is just the kind of story that would fall foul of Chinese censors, is it not? And what real benefit is it for Mail Online, because the story was not even a scoop. |
| The Telegraph website managed to get the same tale about the hospital’s error, which it attributed to the Bandao City News, without getting into bed with The People’s Daily. | The Telegraph website managed to get the same tale about the hospital’s error, which it attributed to the Bandao City News, without getting into bed with The People’s Daily. |