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- China Communist Party mouthpiece demands "rectification" of satirical Twitter account
A Chinese Communist Party mouthpiece has taken to Twitter, banned in China, to call for the "immediate rectification" of an account which uses the social media platform to satirise Chinese officialdom and state media. The Relevant Organs' account, @relevantorgans, calls itself "China's soft-power vanguard, rectifying your thought since 2010." But the People's Daily, a mouthpiece for the Chinese ...
April 25, 2014 - Reuters via Yahoo! Finance
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- Mark Thomas in Telegraph.co.uk
Brown is up to his neck in it,says Thomas. "He's an apparatchik, so he's more difficult to satirise than messianic folk like Blair. But if a comic can't put one on Brown now they should give up their job. He's claiming to have saved the... - Irvine Welsh in Times Online
It was Dean's idea to do something about darts,Welsh says over coffee in a London Starbucks. "Darts is so hyper-real I didn't think it possible to satirise it. So we decided to make it about the obsession with minor celebrity. It's about a... - Feng Xiaogang in Times Online
I like to satirise the people who are pretentious and self-important, who think they're on a higher level than everyone else. I'ma big fan of Woody Allen's films, because I think he does the same thing to New Yorkers that I do to Beijingers,...