Richard Li & Hong Kong Economic Journal
(UPDATE 10) Richard Li explains the HKEJ deal. I have written an obituary (cn) for the intellectual-run journal. Hong Kong bloggers are mourning: 1, 2, 3 (cn).
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Hong Kong tycoon to buy the city's only intellectual and independent Chinese newspaper. What do the Hong Kong bloggers think?
... 读者在博落表示要成立「救报基金」... 传媒要做到人怕并不困难，但要做到好像《信报》有人想救就并不容易。我想，假如有日《苹果》要卖盘，读者最多放弃睇报纸。...
Saving journal
... Blog readers suggest setting up a "Saving Journal Fund" ... It is not difficult to have a media that people fear, but to have a media like the Economic Journal which people would want to save is not easy. I think, if someday the Apple Daily is sold, readers would give up reading newspaper at most ...
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信报卖盘：表明反对 / MO's Review Reborn
... 我在《信报》写东西，不用卖任何财团的帐。试问一般电脑杂志，怎敢容许作者与科技公司的公关硬碰 ... 试问一般电脑杂志，敢容许这种倒广告商米的写手吗？...
李泽楷不是文化人，更不像黎智英般，有对民主运动的坚持。我不认为，李泽楷能够保住信报的优良传统，他怎保证他本人不会干预编辑，实在天晓得。... 我不认为，李泽楷会容得下孔少林、方卓如，以至小弟这些人，不时对电盈有所批评的。加上电盈的第二大股东就是中国网通，我亦不认为信报会容忍像毛孟静这些率直批评中国政府的作家。...
Sale of Hong Kong Economic Journal: Objection
I write for the Economic Journal and I fear no corporations. How dare a general computer magazine allow a columnist to conflict with technology company PR? How dare a general computer magazine allow such writer to prejudice advertisers' business interests?
Richard Li is no intellectual. Unlike Jimmy Lai, he has no dedication to democratic movement. I don't think he can preserve the finest tradition of the Economic Journal. God know how he can guarantee not to interfere with editors. I don't think Richard Li can tolerate Kong Shaolin [pinyin], Fong Cheuk-yu or me, who have criticised PCCW from time to time. Besides, PCCW's second largest shareholder is China Netcom, I don't think [after the sale] Economic Journal can tolerate columnists like Mao Mengjing [pinyin] who criticise Chinese government candidly.
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... 我是如此虚荣，七百万人里的五万份之一，在地铁阅读信报较手拿一份免费报纸小资得多，在报纸摊大声话我要一份信报是如此这般铿锵有力，当报贩告之信报卖晒时，额头皱起的忧郁，显得我是那么的小众。...
看信报其实好够，因为我不需要每天都重复看哪里有车祸，谁跳楼谁被强奸。...
The days without Economic Journal
... Call it vainglory. Among the 7 million people, I am one of the 50,000. Reading the Economic Journal on the underground is much more bourgeois than holding a copy of free newspaper. At the newsstand, to say "I want a copy of Hong Kong Economic Journal" is so powerful. When the newspaper seller tells me it sold out, I wrinkle up, showing that I am "so minority" ...
Reading Economic Journal is indeed very adequate. I don't need to read "where-the-car-crash-took-place-who-fell-from-high-place-who-was-raped" repeatedly everyday ...
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写点八挂吧 / Glycyrrhiza & Berberina
... 香港信报闻名于页数少，广告少，但价钱却不便宜。所以并不是烧烤生火透炉的好选择。只有不吃烧烤，喜欢在家里喝红酒吃素菜的知识分子喜欢买来看。信报其排板方式独特，正当各大报章都要求图片多，色彩多，[娱]乐消闲内容多的同时，它却反其道而行之，只以文字作卖点。内容艰涩难明，尽是经济学云云。买一份拿着到处走，旁人见到会报以尊敬的眼光，会觉得你有素养，有水平。我亦喜欢拿着报纸假装很有文化，特别是我们这类读些奇奇怪怪的人士，看上去好像很专业的样子。...
Hong Kong Economic Journal has a reputation of few pages, few advertisements. But it is not cheap. It is therefore not an ideal choice for starting fire for BBQ. Only the intellectuals who don't BBQ and prefer to drink red wine and have vegetarian meal at home like to buy and read. The layout of the Economic Journal is unique. When the major newspapers are chasing for images, colours, entertainment and leisure contents, it believes the reverse and sells nothing but words. It is difficult to comprehend and full of economics. Buy a copy and hang around, people will look at you respectfully, thinking that you are cultivated. I also like to hold the newspaper to pretend to be a cultured person. Especially for strange people like me, I will look very professional.
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... 文人办报的历史告一段落，中国报业正式走入商人/国家办报的年代，要在报章上看到敢于对抗当权者、大财阀言论的声音，恐怕更加困难。...
林行止一直只将信报等同佢个人，冇谂过将信报建立为一个有历史承传嘅报业品牌，可以将佢办报信念，一代一代继承落去，再简单讲，林行止冇咗信报，佢仍然系名牌，唔会玩完，但信报冇咗林行止，就肯定同明报、星岛冇分别。...
生果报今日竟然连信报卖盘嘅新闻都冇，只有一段八方，我知有老细曾力争过，但系有人唔肯做新闻，人地明报头版呀！肥老话要改革？！哈！哈！哈！
Sale of Economic Journal
The history of intellectual-run newspapers comes to an end. It is an era of businessmen/state-run newspapers. I am afraid that it would be more difficult to have speeches against the authority and magnates ...
Lin Xingzhi [the founder and major shareholder of the Economic Journal] has equated the Economic Journal and himself. He has never thought of turning the Economic Journal to a newspaper heritage which could be inherited by succeeding generations. Simply put, Lin Xingzhi without the Economic Journal is still a brand and the game is not over, but the Economic Journal without Lin Xingzhi is certainly not different from Ming Pao and Sing Tao ...
... To my surprise today's Apple Daily has no coverage of the sale of the Economic Journal, with only a Li Bafang column [LfC: a political gossip column of the Apple Daily]. I knew a boss has fought hard for it, but somebody was unwilling to report the news. It is on Ming Pao's front page! Jimmy Lai wants reform?! Ha! Ha! Ha!
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... 蔡东豪 ... 近日才[撰]文说报纸有可为，却又拒绝骆友梅邀请办《信报》，他所想的是什么？ ...
Tsoi Tung-hoo has recently wrote [in his column in the Economic Journal] that newspaper is good business. But he refused Lok Yau-mui's invitation to manage the journal. What is he thinking?
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听完班中环友[嘅]言论，觉得佢地当正《信报》系曼联，而小小超就系 Malcolm Glazer。
Newspaper in the storm
I have listened to what the Central men said. Apparently they see the Economic Journal as Manchester United, and the Little Superman [LfC: Richard Li] is Malcolm Glazer.
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Which newspaper first disclosed Richard Li had never graduated from Stanford? Hong Kong Economic Journal! (See Leung Lai-kuen (梁丽娟)'s article "March Media Notepad" (三月传媒记事簿), Media Digest, April 2001)
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Anti, a mainland Chinese journalist/blogger whose MSN Spaces blog was ripped off after a series of posts supporting the Beijing News sacked editors, is a fan of the Economic Journal too:
北京－香港－无锡：博客时代的精神病症 / 安替博客
... 议程香港化之后，你才能欣赏这个美丽的自由港。你会每次在听到“下一站是天后”的报站声后会心一笑；你会买了《信报》《南华早报》之后，也忍不住买份《苹果日报》...
Beijing-Hong Kong-Wuxi: Psychological problems of blog era
... Only after your agenda is Hongkong-ised, you can appreciate this beautiful free port. Every time when you hear the underground announcement "the next station is Tin Hau" you smile in your heart. You will buy the Economic Journal and the South China Morning Post, and cannot resist the temptation to buy a copy of Apple Daily ...
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