When a Free Society Becomes a Police State

Honestly with Bari Weiss

The Free Press

Society & Culture, News

4.6 • 7.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

For 26 years, the swash-buckling, pro-democracy tabloid Apple Daily was a thorn in the side of the Chinese Communist Party. This week, after its offices were ransacked, its founder was jailed ,and five of its executives were arrested, it printed its very last edition. The paper's death marks the death of Hong Kong's free press.We hear from a dogged young reporter who takes us inside the newsroom to the last days of Apple Daily, and hear her explain why what is happening to her and her colleagues is not only a threat to them, but to us all. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:43.4	The most important news event of the past week
0:45.5	was the forced closure of a newspaper in Hong Kong
0:49.0	called Apple Daily.
0:51.3	You probably never heard of Apple Daily.
0:53.0	I knew of it, but only vaguely.
0:55.0	It was like Hong Kong's version of the New York Post,
0:58.0	but combined with William Lloyd Garrison's The Liberator.
1:02.0	So it was a tabloid, absolutely, but it was also
1:05.6	something more. It was a voice for freedom. In today's show, why the fate of Apple Daily matters to you, and a firsthand look from a young reporter
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