So @SCMPNews's Chief News Editor Yonden Lhatoo responded to @TMclaughlin3 piece about challenges facing journalists at the publication, saying "some allegations in the article sounded libelous frankly, quite defamatory."

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"We are still looking at the legal implications of that so I have to be a little measured in what I say. I can't do my usual vitriolic rant."
He raised several counterpoints based on an article that he said the EIC of SCMP wrote: "Since when did media organizations take it upon themselves to police other media organizations?"
"With the SCMP, we are always under constant attack by western media outlets, questioning our editorial decisions, our editorial operations, etc."
"Is there any media, western media organization, that will stomach being regularly questioned, regularly interrogated, like "why did you report this story?"
"It's none of their business, but they do it, but they do it regularly with the SCMP right? This all boils down to a cognitive dissonance that a Chinese-owned media outlet can have the guts, the audacity and also the finance to go global with its ambition."
"There is something wrong, as far as the western media when they look at us. There is something wrong there. There is a dissonance there. I've said it before and I'll said it again, it smacks of jealousy. And let's use the word, Racism. It smacks of racism."
"This is just basically muckraking journalism by some complete unknown hack I've never heard of. Everyone expected me to write a big reply, some ranting, angry reply. I decided not to dignify it because I don't know who these people are."
"How many people read @TheAtlantic in #HongKong? Why should I give them the publicity and introduce this unknown publication here in #HongKong?"
"Nowadays, as you well know, it's all about feelings, not facts, and people's feelings that are important. But I understand all that. But this business of like I'm some kind of tin pot dictator, some kind of Hitler character going around throwing tantrums.
"I mean the company won't tolerate this. It's just a bunch of disgruntled people who have probably been told off by me for incompetence or laziness, whatever. They've gone around and they've bitched about it in the gossip circles."
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