Defender of freedoms or defiler of national sovereignty? What exactly was Hong Kong’s Apple Daily?

Apple Daily’s last edition rolled off the presses on Wednesday. - SCMP

HONG KONG (South China Morning Post): Is Apple Daily more than a newspaper?

Critics loathed its sensationalist, pro-opposition and anti-China slant. But loyal readers loved its fearless reporting against those in power, and advancing its own understanding of what democracy ought to look like – unfettered and unbound by Beijing.