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Reporting on the World Cup, this millennium and lastPosted by Joel Martinsen, June 17, 2006 11:20 PM
It's impossible to escape the World Cup in Beijing these days. Newspapers run hefty daily supplements, restaurants across the city have TVs blaring games and analysis, and those body-painted football babes are offered in editions with Chinese characteristics (more clothing, essentially). There has even been some inspired, high-concept silliness: Southern Metropolis Weekly ran a 35-page feature on the 1096 World Cup. Part Outlaws of the Marsh pastiche, part veiled critique of China's contemporary football program, it featured game reports, an interview with commentator Su Dongpo (who thinks the finesse game is a fatal error), and football babe Pan Jinlian. Other manufactured news has not been quite so good-natured. ESWN noted on Thursday the rash of fake interviews that the mainland media claimed to have conducted with football stars. Today, the Mirror's special correspondent in Germany reveals why reporters might be driven to write up fake interviews:
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Comments on Reporting on the World Cup, this millennium and last
I am amazed to learn that China is not participating in the World Cup. What happened there???
As an American who's lived several years in Beijing and now traveling through Europe the impact of the World Cup is staggering. I e-chat with a Chinese man from time to time and last week was astonished to find him online at what for him was 3:30 AM--watching the world cup, he said.
The last evening I spent in Rome, Italy was playing and the restaurant we went to, normally abuzz and rocking with chatter because it is the best pizza place north of the Villa Borghese, was practically empty. So, we suddenly realized, looking down from the second storey terrace, was the normally traffic-snarled street. Not even a motorcycle.
Here in Amsterdam, a bar on my way home from the arts festival is painted orange to celebrate Netherlands' participation in the World Cup and orange banners flap from facades everywhere. All of Europe accommodates the distraction and good natured rowdyness. I'm not a sports fan myself, but I'm enjoying the fallout.
It just shows you how out of touch the States are...where we call football soccer and hardly pay any attention to it compared to other sports.