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The trouble with vox pop

Posted Tuesday, September 02, 2008 5:25 AM by will
Imagethief, being an arrogant son of a bitch and a bona-fide member of the Ivory Tower Elite, is seldom interested in what the common man has to say. Nothing gets me to change the channel faster than an "iReport" segment on CNN, or the BBC equivalent. Read More...
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Foreign media vs. Wang Wei II, plus the trouble with transcripts

Posted Friday, August 22, 2008 1:36 AM by will
Via the China Digital Times , this outstanding excerpt from the transcript of Wednesday's IOC/BOCOG press conference (the ninth in a wretched series, we are informed). I've excised some back and forth between the question and response: South China Morning Read More...
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Foreign media incidents during the Olympics: So much for detente

Posted Friday, August 22, 2008 1:27 AM by will
The latest incident report from the Foreign Correspondents Club of China is out. It doesn't make for pretty reading: BEIJING: OFFICERS ROUGH UP AP PHOTOGRAPHERS, SEIZE MEMORY CARDS August 20, 2008: Two Associated Press photographers attempting to cover Read More...
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