Newspapers, on the other hand, were never to be seen, for the simple reason that every page would have Mao’s name and a few quotations of his printed on it, and if you wiped your ass with a piece of the paper, there would be no safe place to get rid of it. If discovered, such an act of sacrilege would be reported and the incriminating evidence put on display, proof of another grave “counterrevolutionary incident.” No one was prepared to risk this.
