media - A writer leaves the Economic Observer

T-Salon notes with sadness the departure of Xu Zhiyuan as a writer at one of the better dailies covering China's economic developments. Toeing the party line and running a successful medium is very hard to combine. Xu writes:

I hate the Economic Observer nowadays because it is like a party struggle. It's so politically correct and it's so intransparent.

Andrea does not explain exactly what happened, but says:

Given his talent, vision and ambitions, I knew he wouldn't stay for very long with the Economic Observer when I was reading his weekly column back in 2002. But I never expected that he would quit under such circumstances.