Wednesday, April 25, 2007 5:53 AM
by
will
How Chinese net purification news goes global
Chris at Beijing Newspeak sums up the genesis of International coverage of China's latest round of Internet purification rhetoric. Nothing like an insider's eye.
[I] did have to send back the first version of it to ask the writer to
make sense of embarrassing phrases such as “promote the good, the pure
and the beautiful”. I told her not to waste much time on it. Just
another barrage of empty words, I said. Clearly not a news story, I
concluded.
Of course, Reuters and AP picked it up and now it is all over the Internet.
Worth a read.
Hat tip: ESWN.