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Danwei Picks: 2007-12-5Posted by Joel Martinsen on Wednesday, December 5, 2007 at 4:34 PM
Danwei Picks is a daily digest of the "From the Web" links found on the Danwei homepage. A feed for the links as they are posted throughout the day is available at Feedsky (in China) or Feedburner (outside China). China's man at the anchor desk: The LATimes talks to Edwin Maher, an Australian newsman who is currently an anchor on CCTV: He was hired in 2003 as the station introduced a Western face to shake its image as a stodgy government mouthpiece, famous among foreigners for its wooden presentations and sometimes-tortured English. Maher anchors the news up to four times a day for millions of viewers worldwide, including the U.S. Critics say Maher isn't a reporter at all, but a shameless government yes-man who gives all Western journalists a bad name. Maher answers bluntly: He says he simply doesn't care. via China Media News
Midler is apparently bothered by Fallows' lack of Chinese sophistication, but I embrace it. I have never known Fallows to pitch himself as a China expert and I would be the first to agree he is not. But so what? We have plenty of so-called China experts writing on Chinese business, law, politics, culture, food, transportation, manufacturing, internet, marketing, schooling, healthcare, etc. Fallows writes about the China he sees and he does a damn fine job of it. The China Fallows sees is that of a writer clearly happy to be writing about one of the most exciting places on earth and his fresh perspective on it is both different from and an oftentimes welcome respite from the experts by which Midler swears. China's turtles, emblems of crisis: The latest feature in the New York Times' series on development in China, Jim Yardley uses the plight of the Yangtze soft-shell turtle, of which there are only two known individuals remaining, as a jumping-off point for a discussion of wildlife conservation: Few, if any, of the world's modern economic powers, including the United States, have industrialized without taking a dire toll on plants and animals. In China, the Communist Party's top-down, authoritarian system has presided over a destruction of nature. Now, with environmental problems threatening the economy, the party is trying to engineer a top-down reconstruction. Includes audio, video, and a Chinese translation.
The headline on the Economist.com item was: "America's emobyte deficit: China's youth surpass their American rivals online." The story opened with a quote from Diller: |
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