The Southern Metropolis Daily published an editorial accusing officials in Zoomlion's hometown of Changsha of abuse of power over the case.
A bilingual Global Times editorial says officials are taking bribes or illegally buying up houses because they are not allowed to earn private income while in office.
Abuse survivors, senior government ministers, serving priests, canon lawyers, newspaper editorials, police officials, human rights groups and the head of the country's biggest children's charity were among those calling on the cardinal to step down Thursday over his failure 37 years ago to report damning evidence against the Rev. Brendan Smyth.
Explanatory factors could include different editorial policies, official or not, or submission bias, since it is plausible that authors tend to submit their work to journals where articles dealing with similar topics are published.
On Wednesday, People's Daily, the official party mouthpiece, published an editorial that said officials were finding ways to transgress and indulge in "low-key extravagance".
Other elected officials, editorial boards and others have been hammering on the issue for three days.
Beijing News, which is partly owned by Nanfang Media, only agreed to publish the editorial after propaganda officials paid the newspaper a menacing visit.
A 2002 editorial criticizing Islamic officials for condemning the Miss World pageant led to ThisDay's offices being ransacked and burned; fatwas were issued against its editors.
In the last month and a half, however, trade associations, newspaper editorial boards, local officials and independent retailers have started warming to the notion.
PARIS — Even in a region long disdainful of American attitudes toward the death penalty, public officials, editorial writers and activists across Western Europe reacted with fury on Thursday to news that Troy Davis was executed in Georgia on Wednesday night.
In a further apparent breach of Ofcom rules, this time on the matter of editorial independence, Home Office officials "were directly involved in the making of the series", says the Telegraph.
