Jiang Zemin's Glasses

First of all, I have to qualify that I have no personal vendetta against former Chinese President Jiang Zemin. (江泽民)

I just found it amusing when Anne Stevenson-Yang wrote the following about Jiang: "Sichuan News was rumored to have gotten into trouble for writing disrespectfully about President Jiang Zemin's (widely ridiculed) eyeglasses. Since the organization was not making money, it was weakly positioned to call on local authorities for help in mounting a defense." (Anne Stevenson-Yang, "The Absent-Minded Reform of China's Media", in China's Leadership in the 21st Century: The Rise of the Fourth Generation, Ed. David M. Finkelstein and Maryanne Kivlehan)

Actually all Sichuan News did was to reflect the thinking of the masses. But apparently that was not supposed to be the main role of the Chinese media.