BEIJING — In a country where the press is tightly managed by the state, the identical editorials that appeared Monday in more than a dozen publications calling for reform of China's onerous household registration system were noteworthy.
And, in a highly unusual campaign on March 1st, a dozen publications ran identical editorials calling for modest reform to the household-registration system that discriminates against rural Chinese.
A week after the University of Southern California barred the editor of the student-run newspaper, The Daily Trojan, from being reappointed to a second term, college newspapers nationwide planned to publish identical editorials today denouncing the action as a betrayal of "the fundamental value of the press," according to an advance version of the editorial.
Please see related Commentary: http://www.ehjournal.net/content/12/1/68/abstract In a Commentary published in this journal, Bergman et al. [ 1] respond to a highly unusual coordinated set of identical editorials in 14 toxicology journals, now available ahead-of-print [ 2].
It will be about half the size of the original and carry identical advertising and editorial content.
Two years ago I introduced legislation regarding laptop searches identical to what your editorial describes.
In China, whenever the authorities turned on some invisible tap and briefly allowed students to vent their nationalist anger in the wake of some foreign crime against the Motherland, their words were literally identical, being taken from editorials in the state-controlled press.The students in Trafalgar Square had not been filled with anything as coherent as an ideology.
This may be explained by the fact that no JCR journal originates from Taiwan or China, and the origin of the Editorial tends to be identical to that of the journal.
In addition, free-text reaction names make the editorial task of eliminating duplicate or near-identical reactions more difficult.
Two years ago, I randomly sampled the administration's speeches on Iraq and reached almost identical conclusions to the ones reached by the Senate Intelligence Committee and your editorial.
