There is an excep­tional and very poignant post from a sacked Chinese journ­al­ist trans­lated and repro­duced at the China Digital Times:

I am afraid of other people prais­ing me as a brave news­pa­per­man, because I know I am full of fear in my heart. I did write some com­ment­ar­ies on cur­rent affairs, and edited some art­icles that exposed the truth.

I lost my job and was threatened for speak­ing the truth.

How­ever, to be hon­est, these were excep­tional cases. They were my mis­cal­cu­la­tions. In my vari­ous media pos­i­tions in the past dec­ade, what I’ve prac­tised most is avoid­ing risk.

Self-censorship has become part of my life. It makes me dis­gus­ted with myself. Con­tinue read­ing →