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Article: Quake reporting raises concerns of media ethics
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- June 11, 2008
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Quake reporting raises concerns of media ethics by Qiu Lin
BEIJING, June 11 (Xinhua) -- When Chongqing-based magazine New
Travel Weekly featured China's May 12 earthquake, it maintained its
popular themes of glamour and sex.
Scantily-clad models draped themselves over the rubble, bloodied
bandages as accessories to their bikinis, tight tee-shirts and mini-
shorts, under the headline "Reborn from the Ruins".
The public reaction to this display of questionable taste and
insensitivity was immediate.
The outcry at the newsstands quickly reached the city government,
which suspended the magazine for "rectification", and the magazine
president and chief editor lost their jobs for "unethical ...