The Economist (June 15)
The majority of Hong Kong’s courageous protestors were “young—too young to be nostalgic about British rule. Their unhappiness at Beijing’s heavy hand was entirely their own…. The Communist Party has been making clear that it will tolerate no more insubordination—and yet three days later demonstrators braved rubber bullets, tear gas and legal retribution to make their point. All these things are evidence that, as many Hong Kongers see it, nothing less than the future of their city is at stake.”
Tags: Beijing, British, Bullets, Communist party, Courageous, Future, Heavy hand, Hong Kong, Insubordination, Nostalgic, Protestors, Tear gas, Young
Washington Post (August 8)
“Knowing how much the Grahams loved the paper, we could only imagine how hard it must have been for Don and his niece, Post publisher Katharine Weymouth, to tell that stunned room of employees that the paper was being sold…. Many of us sense that Don and his family have done an unselfish and courageous thing, at some personal emotional cost. Knowing that the Grahams could not sustain The Post indefinitely as a great newspaper, they looked for someone who could.” Selling the Washington Post “was Grahams’ gift to journalism.”
Tags: Courageous, Don Graham, Emotional cost, Employees, Journalism, Katharine Weymouth, Newspaper, Publisher, Unselfish, Washington Post
