|
Foreign media on China
The junket to TibetPosted by Jeremy Goldkorn, March 27, 2008 8:34 AM
There is currently some discord amongst the foreign correspondents of Beijing: The Chinese government has invited 26 foreign journalists to Lhåsa to check out the situation themselves. The problem has been caused by the invitation list: AP is on, but Reuters is not. The Wall Street Journal and USA Today are also confirmed to be on the list. Furthermore, according to Danwei sources, the invited media have not agreed to pool their reporting and video, meaning that the left out newspapers and new agencies will have to rely on their competitors for second hand information, photos and video. But the debate may be merely academic: sitting in Beijing with a mobile phone and a modem, anyone with sufficient curiosity probably has access to better information than any of the Potemkin nonsense that the junket journalists will probably see. UPDATE: Tim Johnson, the Beijing bureau chief for McClatchy Newspapers — not on the junket — has published a letter from the Foreign Correspondents Club of Beijing to the government complaining about restricted access Charles Hutzler, Beijing Bureau chief of Associated Press, has a report from the trip. Shai Oster of The Wall Street Journal has another report. Geoff Dyer of The Financial Times has a report here, and an audio podcast and image gallery here. |
Partner Links
Jobs in China
Recent Comments
Gareth on
Gamble your life away in ZT Online
Inst on
The Mouse looms over Shanghai
Anonymous on
Giant Mao Zedong stands alone in the autumn cold
Joel Marti on
A centenarian monk reads the newspaper
little Ale on
Those damned English experts
Media Partners
Visit these sites for the latest China news
China Media Timeline
Major media events over the last three decades
Danwei Model Workers
 Recommended blogs and new media
Books on China
 Xujun Eberlein's Apologies Forthcoming: Hong Kong's Blacksmith Books has published a short story collection by Xujun Eberlein.
Princess Der Ling: Two Years in the Forbidden City: Two years in the Forbidden City is largely a reminiscence of the minutiae of life for one of history's most powerful women, by one of her court attendants, a Manchu noble's daughter by the name of Der Ling.
Carl Crow's The Long Road Back to China: In 1939 Carl Crow - an American journalist, advertising executive and author who had lived in Shanghai for 25 years until forced out by the Japanese - travelled up the Burma Road from Rangoon to Chongqing on assignment for Liberty magazine － 'the most interesting assignment I have ever been given'.
Front Page of the Day
A different newspaper every weekday
From the Vault
Classic Danwei posts
+ The Dazhai Spirit gets religion (2007.10): In a Window of the South (南风窗) feature on model village Dazhai (大寨), Li Xiangping (李向平) writes about the role religion, in the form of the Pule Temple, plays in the village's changing identity. + Will the Boat Sink the Water? a review by Göran Leijonhufvud (2006.11): Göran Leijonhufvud, former China correspondent of several Scandinavian newspapers, is now researching village elections in minority nationalities areas in Yunnan. + One Country, Two Versions (2005.02): CEPA eases co-productions between the mainland and Hong Kong, but does it undermine creativity?
Danwei Archives
Danwei Feeds
Via Feedsky
 (on the mainland)or Feedburner  (blocked in China) Main feed: Main posts (FB has top links) Top Links: Links from the top bar Danwei Jobs: Want ads Danwei Digest: Updated daily, 19:30 |
 |
Chinese media, advertising, and urban life. |
|
tweet
facebook
bookmark
HaoHao
digg
Comments on The junket to Tibet
Pathetic. And illuminating. For all of the high-minded talk about "just" being humble reporters who "just' want to bring the story to readers and viewers - we now learn that turf and a desire for a Pulitzer trumps civic-mindedness.
I'm as sympathetic and concerned about the Tibetan situation as the next expat, but let's face facts: one of the factors motivating this story is the glory that accrues to the journalists who cover it. And the ones covering it are LOVING it. Surely, it beats the hell out of covering the emerging Chinese insurance industry ... how else to explain why the New York Times's Shanghai-based biz correspondent has a story on Tibet in this morning's edition?
What a bunch of catty little children. And, for the record: shame on those who won't pool, but thanks for reminding us - those who don't get to go - just how badly you all want the "truth" about Tibet to get out.
Just a note, the Net Nanny appears to be going crazy over the most recent AP report. Apparently some monks started complaining in Mandarin (refreshingly different from the all-English protests outside the area) that the protests weren't organized by the DL, not following the script. I wish I could read more, but the page keeps resetting.
In Nanjing with China Telecom: Almost all the major newspaper sites are not loading or are slowed to the point of nodding off. This, after some days of nearly wide-open access. I got to 2 out of 3 of the links above before my "connection was reset" on the WSJ article.
I guess the Nanny has a rather low opinion of The Guardian as it loads straight up.
@Chengdude: I think its that the Net Nanny has been warned off of blocking the groniad's site due to a certain 'strongly worded letter' ;)