
{"id":26470,"date":"2012-06-14T14:53:18","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T18:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=26470"},"modified":"2012-06-14T14:53:18","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T18:53:18","slug":"mr-joke-goes-to-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2012\/06\/14\/mr-joke-goes-to-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Joke goes to China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Thousand Words<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>By Jock Lauterer<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2012\/06\/14\/mr-joke-goes-to-china\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/1k061412.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"1k061412\" width=\"500\" height=\"630\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/1k061412.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/1k061412-113x142.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/1k061412-89x113.jpg 89w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/1k061412-79x100.jpg 79w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/1k061412-360x453.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWho says this newspaper doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get around? When I got the Fulbright to China earlier this spring, I put on my bucket list not just a visit to the Great Wall of China, but also this photo. And for good reason. Over a 10-day span I gave eight lectures on \u00e2\u20ac\u201c what else? \u00e2\u20ac\u201c community journalism. And the good old <em>Citizen<\/em> was center-stage at three Beijing university \u00e2\u20ac\u0153J-schools\u00e2\u20ac\u009d where one kid practically cried when I gave him the Citizen with the Barack Obama front-page photo. Yes, China\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s press is severely shackled by the government, so my job of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153preachin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and teachin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u009d about the watchdog local media, First Amendment, free press and prior restraint was all the more exciting. There were a couple of white-knuckled moments when I made my hosts nervous, but the students themselves, bless their hearts, wanted me to take the gloves off and tell them the truth. You can read all about it for yourself on my China blog: weblogs.jomc.unc.edu\/bluehighways\/<br \/>\nThe above title is in reference to one presentation where my host kept referring to me as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Mr. Joke.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\nIf the shoe fits \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 <\/p>\n<p><strong>A THOUSAND WORDS<\/strong><br \/>\nDo you have an important old photo that you value? Email your photo to jock@email.unc.edu and include the story behind the picture. Because every picture tells a story. And its worth? A thousand words.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/sections\/a-thousand-words\/\">More &#8220;A Thousand Words&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who says this newspaper doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get around? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":26471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[422],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-thousand-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26472,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26470\/revisions\/26472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}