China acknowledges Tiananmen Square Massacre...for 12 hours
It would seem that the verification & censorship process over at the China Daily and People's Daily needs some fixing.
According to East South West North blog, the online edition of China Daily on August 8 posted an article titled: "China invites the world to Olympics" on its website. Further down the article, it included a paragraph which reads "Security was tight around Tiananmen Square, where troops crushed pro-democracy demonstrations in 1989 with huge loss of life, as crowds gathered for the celebrations."
It seems someone at China Daily copy and pasted the article from Reuters' Nick Mulvenney without checking the content.
So it stayed that way for 12 hours before the censors caught wind of the "offending" sentence and removed it.
The Hong Kong newspapers Apple Daily, Ming Pao, Sing Tao, etc. also had the same article with the Tiananmen Square sentence.
China Daily "corrected" version
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Speaking of the Tiananmen Square, here's a video "The Tank Man"
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