Mark Clifford, South China Morning Post newspaper editor-in-chief, make that 'change agent', versus the rest?
A mainstream media take on the latest sackings affair at the SCMP: International Herald Tribune Thanks, Gavin!
As of today, it is to be noted there has been no, to my knowledge, coverage in either of Hong Kong's English-language newspapers, neither in SCMP nor in (Hong Kong's) Standard.
First report of the latest SCMP sackings appeared in the Chinese-language press (Apple Daily, Ming Pao) and was thence reported by bilingual blogger EastSouthWestNorth.
Mister B, um, shuffling of feet, whereupon picked up the baton: senior editors sacked. According to logs, bloomberg, guardian, dow jones, singtao are among the news media which are known to have stopped by Mister B. Hi, everyone.
Anyway, for background on editorial hoo-ha at SCMP, please see previous posts by Mister B (+ accompanying comments in Comments): Stand Off and Sackings no joke and SCMP senior editors sacked
For newer/previous posts, please click on scmp in Labels.
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Someone posted this comment on Asia Sentinel, which was the first English language news org to do any reporting on this. The Chinese press got it wrong at first.
The meaning of Clifford: hack
Sure there has been a lot of mud thrown at Clifford for his idiot decision to fire people over a joke leaving page but the issue goes a bit deeper. How is that this man has become THE alpha wolf in Hong Kong's English-language newspapers? He had no newspaper experience before he worked at the Standard. He was a bad manager at FEER and at Business Week, where he was detested by those who worked under him. At the Standard, where he was also detested, his last act before leaving was to fire the guys who were running that paper. Yet there he is. Now over here at the Post, he is gutting morale and wreaking havoc. And he lectures us on "ethics" because we had a joke or two. The owners are to blame. The hacks don't deserve this kind of manager and neither do readers.
November 17, 2006
Well Clifford is still pals with the tycoon who owns the Standard so maybe his foul ups are off limits ...
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