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Spot the newspaper that reported the Nanjing factory explosionPosted by Alice Xin Liu on Thursday, July 29, 2010 at 4:40 PM
Reporting around the explosion in a plastics factory in Nanjing has been patchy. The factory, which has been called a "time bomb" before a gas leak killed 12, was in newspapers in the former capital today. Modern Express is a Xinhua-run commercial newspaper. Today a black cover points to the explosion in Nanjing, and about how it is testing its people. However, no other major newspaper in the city had the explosion in a featured position on the front page. The Yangtse Evening Post went with the time allocated for National day holidays and the Pakistan airplane crash; The Oriental Guardian goes with the anniversary of the Tangshan earthquake, and the government organ Nanjing Daily with a small side banner about the explosion being under control; The Xinhua Daily (not affiliated with the Xinhua News Agency) marks the ninth 'double support' model city commendation ceremony, and mentions the explosion in a small piece at the bottom of the page. Tip from Media Wang's Sina microblog. Links and Sources
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Comments on Spot the newspaper that reported the Nanjing factory explosion
According to Nanjing locals (who live close to the scene of the accident) at least 70 or 80 people are killed and "at least 10" is one way of putting that I guess.
yeah, it is a bit weird. the major state-run media outlet is basically silent on the nanjing explosion today. but there are plenty of stories about the chemical barrels in the songhua river.....
and nanjingren's comment is pretty telling too.