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China Getting Wise To Media: The Earthquake And Wikipedia

By Steve Dickinson, from Shanghai The Chinese media response to yesterday's Sichuan Province earthquake has been unexpected. When these sorts of things happened in the 80s or the 90s or even two years ago, there was a virtual media blackout. Not true for... ...full story at China Law Blog

from China Law Blog on Tue, May 13 2008

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17 May 08 visit Real Earthquake Devastation Not Revealed  »  YouTube videoCHEN: As the widespread devastation of the earthquake in China is being slowly revealed to the world by China's state media, some residents in Sichuan Province still feel they are not being informed of the true extent of the disaster and the rescue...
21 May 08 visit links for 2008-05-21  »  RConversation AsiaMedia :: CHINA: International media change sentiments after earthquake "China provides local and foreign journalists with information about rescue efforts and access to areas affected by May 19 earthquake in Sichuan province" (tags: china media...
06 Feb 09 visit Chinese Media on Dam Earthquake Link  »  Mutant Palm James Fallows wishes he was in China right now to “see first-hand” how people in China are reacting to reports that dam construction may have led to the Sichuan earthquake last year. Here’s a rough translation of the only media report...
07 Feb 09 visit Did The Zipingpu Dam Cause The Sichuan Earthquake?  »  ESWN Western media hypes up the Sichuan earthquake as manmade, but you should also read what the Chinese scientists have been saying.
17 May 09 visit In Memory: 1 Year Anniversary Of The 5.12 Sichuan Earthquake  »  CN Reviews As expected, the Chinese media and internet is crawling with content commemorating the one-year anniversary of the devastating 2008 May 12th Sichuan Earthquake (often also referred to as the Beichuan/Wenchuan Earthquake) that killed a reported 68,712...
21 May 08 visit China and Hong Kong: Interviewing Earthquake Reporter  »  Global Voices Ling Nan from inmediahk.net, interviewed a Hong Kong reporter in Sichuan earthquake center about issues that hadn't been reported in Hong Kong mainstream media [zh]. The reporter also criticized the way official Chinese media handle the news.

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