Abstract
This article analyzes the conduct and performance of the Communist press in Hong Kong, where contrasting viewpoints and alternative news sources are easily available. The primary role of the Communist press is to propagate communist views and conduct united front work. It also needs to compete for readers either for financial survival or for effective and extensive transmission of its views, two requirements that often are contradictory and even mutually exclusive. The question is, then, how does the Communist press balance these two requirements? And is the competitive market force a more important factor than party directives in shaping its editorial orientation? Through two case studies in the July 1988-July 1989 period-the Beidaihe Affair, July-September 1988, and Wen Wei Po and the Democratic Movement in China, April-July 1989-we attempt to illustrate the following critical dimensions of the PRC-linked press in Hong Kong as well as its interactions with the PRC establishment and the local community:
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