Word: yang
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...main consideration for a Chinese journalist is whether an article is profitable for the government and for the people. "If it's good, then we can write it," Yang says. Moreover, the primary duty of the press is to explain Chinese policy and to convince the people that the policy is right, she continues. "Of course, we only say the truth, not the false," Hsiao adds...
Hsiao joined the Wen Hui Daily, the second largest newspaper in China, in 1957, covering arts and literature. His wife, Mei-Rong Yang, who is also a reporter in Shanghai, works for a competing newspaper called Liberation Daily Hsiao distinguishes the two papers by the fact that "my newspaper is unofficial and hers is official." Furthermore, Wen Hui Daily's readers are the intellectuals, while Liberation Daily attracts mainly workers and cadres...
According to Hsiao and Yang, the Chinese press functions on principles entirely different from American principles. Hsiao says that in America "you write anything you like," citing the articles published in The Washington Post and The New York Times about the Pentagon Papers in 1970. If an incident of a comparable top-secret nature occurred in China, "we can't issue it," Hsiao says...
According to Yang, the Chinese papers cover the same sorts of political, international and social news as in America, but with one major difference in their purpose. When writing about crime, the paper will not include all the minute details, but rather will focus on "educating people not to do such evil things," she says...
Meanwhile, seven correspondents were dispatched to Kansas City. Laurence Barrett and John Yang from Washington, Jack White from New York and Christopher Ogden from Chicago reported and assessed the debate, question by question. Douglas Brew and Sam Allis, both from Washington, judged the individual performances of Reagan and Mondale. Washington Bureau Chief Robert Ajemian, in consultation with his TIME colleagues, contributed an overview of the event. In Washington, Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott reviewed how each candidate handled the details of foreign policy under the pressures of the face-to-face meeting. In addition, TIME had a panel of foreign policy...