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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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More debate on He Kexin and "babygate"

Posted Thursday, August 21, 2008 6:29 AM by will
"Babygate" being the best sounding label I can come up with for this controversy. First, interesting posts from the Stryde Hax blog on "Google hacking" information about He Kexin. Essentially this involves using Google's advanced search features to target Read More...
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Olympic match-up II: Foreign press vs. BOCOG spokesman Wang Wei

Posted Wednesday, August 20, 2008 1:11 AM by will
This New York Times article is a few days old, but I didn't have time to get to it when it first came out. Apparently some of the press conferences got a little scratchy as journalists got frustrated with BOCOG's oblique responses to any question not Read More...
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Why I don't care about the opening ceremony's fraudulent footprints

Posted Tuesday, August 12, 2008 6:56 AM by will
Or so you would start to believe from the press reports over the last day. Some have dwelt upon the lip-synched singing of hyper-precious Lin Miaoke , the impossibly apple-cheeked munchkin girl who "sang" the laudatory and self-referentially titled "I Read More...
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Summing up how the western world looks at China

Posted Monday, July 28, 2008 6:09 AM by will
After you swallow a fair dose of the Chinapocalypse coverage that tends to ricochet through western media it can be nice to have a little antidote. John Pomfret, the former Beijing bureau chief of the Washington Post and a long-time China correspondent, Read More...
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Hopeless adventures in vulgarity control

Posted Thursday, July 24, 2008 5:04 AM by will
The downside of scanning something like thirty Google alerts a day is that you lose productivity and fill your head with random crap. The upside is that you sometimes notice strange juxtapositions of news. For example, the following two Reuters stories: Read More...
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Enzaji Leer is caught red handed with the bomb!

Posted Thursday, July 24, 2008 4:23 AM by will
Accompanying the Wall Street Journal's article about the special Olympic protest zones are seven pages of scans of the notorious English phrasebook issued to Beijing police. It is well worth a look just so you can see what constitute typical Olympic scenarios Read More...
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Spontaneous Olympic joy by decree and other news

Posted Monday, June 16, 2008 6:28 AM by will
Cliff Coonan has a story in showbiz trade Variety that examines the broadcasting problems I posted about last week. The article is something of an omnibus piece on current Olympic issues. Among other things, it gets into the organizers' efforts to develop Read More...
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The quake's effect on perceptions of China

Posted Thursday, May 22, 2008 7:09 AM by will
A good Wall Street Journal article on how the vigorous response to the quake has helped China to improve its image: Natural disasters sometimes leave damaged governments among the rubble in their wake. But more than a week after a giant earthquake shook Read More...
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The counterfeit hackware ain't your major problem

Posted Monday, May 12, 2008 10:19 PM by will
Imagethief was interested to see an article discussing the security problems of Chinese counterfeits of networking equipment on the breathlessly named "Law and Justice" section of the ABC television network's website. What I found interesting was not Read More...
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Weekend Olympic roundup

Posted Monday, April 28, 2008 12:57 AM by will
Imagethief is aware that this blog is at risk of becoming "all Olympics, all the time". This isn't intentional, but when you write about PR, communication and China its rather hard to ignore the symbolism, conflict and dueling narratives swirling around Read More...
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China to meet DL's representative: Spot the difference in language

Posted Friday, April 25, 2008 6:20 AM by will
From CNN.com, a report that the Chinese government will meet with a representative of the Dalai Lama. This strikes Imagethief as something that be the result of a piece of external advice. You know, it would really look good if you would at least sit Read More...
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He's not speaking for me...

Posted Tuesday, April 22, 2008 7:11 AM by will
I am trying to figure out if "Mr. Fred J.M. Slot" (who's English is just slightly suspect) is taking the piss in this letter to Shanghai Daily : ON behalf of myself and many of my friends I would like to apologize to the Chinese people for the way the Read More...
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