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First CCP Newspaper Chief Editor to Apologizes for Actions in "6.4 Pro-Democracy Movement".
Follow us on TWITTER: twitter.com Like us on FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com Media reported that Beijing media professionals recently disclosed that Xu Zhuqing made a first public apology to reporters and editors who were punished for involvement in the "June 4th pro-democracy movement" of 1989. In 1989, Xu was then-chief editor of China Youth Daily, a mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The report reviewed that the apology gave a perfect end to Xu #39;s political career. Boxun.com quoted informed sources, saying that on his retirement farewell in 2004, Xu Zhuqing openly apologized to his colleagues who had been punished for participating in the June 4th pro-democracy movement. The report said that as a vice-ministerial level CCP cadre, Xu Zhuqing is the first chief-editor of a CCP central newspaper who has made such a pubic apology. Li Datong, former senior editor of the China Youth Daily, says that in 1989, many CCP officials did not act of their own free will. Li Datong: "Every person of integrity has such feelings. In 1989, those officials had to do something, but in fact, that was not their own free will. So he apologized for this when he retired." During the 1989 pro-democracy movement, China Youth Daily published on the front page a large photo of its journalists and editors walking in the march. The report said that in facing the slander of "4-26 Editorial," the newspaper #39;s journalists and editors and Beijing #39;s media professionals jointly released an open ...From:ChinaForbiddenNewsViews:3 0ratingsTime:03:42More inNews Politics

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First CCP Newspaper Chief Editor to Apologizes for Actions in "6.4 Pro-Democracy Movement". - Video