Demand High for Chinese Newspaper
Demand has been so great for a newspaper published and distributed free by Chinese journalists in Los Angeles that the editor tripled the number of copies that were initially printed on Friday to 1,000.
Copies of the Press Freedom Herald rolled off the presses Friday morning and were quickly snapped up by local supporters of the pro-democracy movement in Beijing.
Caltech student Li Min Xiang picked up 400 copies to distribute to classmates, who he hoped would mail them to friends in China. Hu Chengmin, a student at Pacific State University, drove up from Bell just to pick up 50 copies.
The Herald staff, made up of former journalists in China, said they published the paper for distribution in China because media censorship there has prevented their countrymen from reading accurate reports about the protests. The staff asked readers to fax, carry or mail copies of the paper, which is printed free by C.T. Printing in Los Angeles, back to China.
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