SCMP has new information on the Taishi Village story
My heart's in Accra has a nice graph showing "how the brief blip of amplification the [Taishi Village] story recieved [sic] in the blogosphere appears to have died down," after western media lost interest in the story as Lu Banglie, an activist who was initially reported as beaten to death, was found to be safe and alive.
Today, SCMP has come up with some new information on what had happened last week as well as the current reality inside Taishi Village, winning praises from Simon World:
Today, SCMP has come up with some new information on what had happened last week as well as the current reality inside Taishi Village, winning praises from Simon World:
"The SCMP's got substantial coverage of the Taishi incident, including a good summary by Leu Siew Ying, a fawning piece on Lu Banglie, an op-ed by Peter Goff on the dangers for Chinese citizens working with foreigners, a point already well made by ESWN last week and a piece by Simon Parry also on the constraints of mainland reporting and the flaws of the international press, starring Jonathan Joffe-Walt and Lu Banglie. While I often have a go at the SCMP, this time they are doing a good job of covering an important story. The articles are reproduced below the jump."
