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...notion that 'chengguan routinely use violence' is not compatible with the facts," the Beijing chengguan's media office wrote in a reply to TIME, adding that in recent years their officers have improved law enforcement and responded to the public's demands. The media office acknowledged the existence of the controversial manual but said its methods were not used. As for Su, the chengguan said she disturbed social order and prevented the officers from carrying out their duties, leading to a 15-day detention...
...some victims' groups, the battle to expose the truth has only just begun. Protesters outside the Dublin hotel where the report was presented to the media (victims and their families were not allowed to attend) said they would pursue their abusers in court and seek criminal prosecutions. To date, more than $193 million in compensation has been paid by the Irish government to victims of abuse in residential institutions...
...Although American papers are facing a direr situation at the moment, their managers have been so much more flexible and innovative in responding than France's rigid media," Texier says. "Besides, American dailies started with far bigger markets and much more money than French papers did, so their margin for recovery is larger too." That may leave the French wishing they could go even further in promoting a peculiarly Gallic solution: more holidays...
French news junkies have looked on in horror over the past few months as America's most august papers slashed staffs and in some cases morphed into exclusively online entities to weather the worst financial storm the industry has ever seen. On Thursday, however, some of that U.S. media pain hit closer to home, as French readers of the left-leaning Libération popped into newsstands to find their favorite daily nowhere to be found. The reason: managers of the financially troubled Libé decided not to publish on Ascension and five other national holidays throughout the year...
...pressure they've come under from free papers has led dailies to consider similar practices as they seek to react to falling ad revenues and the threat from the Internet," says Jean-Clément Texier, a media expert and founder of the Compagnie financière de communication consulting group in Paris. "Of course, readers initially react by saying it's a terrible move that breaks French tradition and deprives them of their paper. But since a huge portion of French dailies come in the morning mail - which doesn't operate on holidays - will anyone really miss getting those...