Beijing Adult Entertainment: What’s Going On with Guo Degang, Now China’s Most Reviled Comedian?
The official version is that a BTV investigation into whether Guo’s Beijing villa encroached onto “public green space” turned nasty when a reporter was allegedly beaten up by Li Hebiao, a protégé of Guo’s. The comedian himself then turned up the heat with an incendiary attack on the media during a show, calling hacks “whore-respondents” and “green-light” prostitutes. As the public spat intensified, events began to turn against Guo.
So the media, freshly emboldened from a recent – and justified – triumph over censorship, nobly took on a famous bully – and claimed another scalp.
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Now his books have been yanked from (most) shelves in Beijing and Tianjin (his hometown), his theatres have had their licenses revoked and he has been airbrushed from state television. How is this a paragon of freedom? And what on earth has the government got to do with a spat between him and some reporters?
See the full article from “China Digital Times”