Chinese newspaper issues corrections after dispute

Published January 18, 2013 3:54am ET



BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese weekly newspaper whose editorial staff had a rare but short-lived revolt against censorship issued a correction for mistakes that were blamed on censors and helped fuel the dispute.

The correction came as a bookend to a dispute in which journalists tested the boundaries of state censorship and in which China’s ruling Communist Party showed that it is not ready to loosen its tight grip on the media.

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