Only a small section of the paper indirectly referred to Southern Weekly's recent row with the censors.
Mr Goldkorn believes that even if Mr Tuo remains in his position, Southern Weekly will also continue to soldier on.
Searches for "Southern Weekly" on the Twitter-like weibo are being blocked, reports BBCChinese.com editor Zhuang Chen, who adds there is huge public interest in the story.
In an article commenting on the editorial, the Southern Weekly argued that China's policy of opening up must also be reflected in a more open media.
Southern Weekly reported the news, and suspected the SASAC (state-owned assets supervision and administration commission) policies for punishment and the central corporate nominating system were to blame.
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Journalists working for Southern Weekly refused to be interviewed for this story, saying they did not want to anger the central government by speaking to foreign media.
"Not since the time of reform and opening up and the founding of China has there been someone like Tuo Zhen, " Yan Lieshan, a retired Southern Weekly editor, also told Reuters.
It also spread beyond Southern Weekly, after some papers tried to disobey an apparent government directive ordering papers to publish a Global Times editorial blaming the confrontation on "activists outside the media industry".
The government also realizes that a certain degree of openness is critical to letting the media perform many of those roles, which may explain its relatively tolerant approach in the recent Southern Weekly conflict.
Perhaps even more to the point, China's M2 measure of money supply was up 19.5% this November compared to last (Want China Times, quoting China's Southern Weekly, has an excellent, concise article on this subject here, and really nails the issue on its head).
Yang Xiao (China), Beijing correspondent for the Southern People Weekly.
Southern Metropolis Daily is appalled at an expose by business magazine Century Weekly on public relations firms reaping massive profits from deleting negative or critical internet posts for businesses and even officials.
Continued uncertainty over the economic health of southern European countries is expected to support gold prices next week, with the majority of participants in the weekly Kitco News Gold Survey forecasting higher prices.
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