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  • The trouble with vox pop

    Imagethief, being an arrogant son of a bitch and a bona-fide member of the Ivory Tower Elite, is seldom interested in what the common man has to say. Nothing gets me to change the channel faster than an ''iReport'' segment on CNN, or the BBC equivalent. Of course, most professional pundits are equally useless, so in a sense, my contempt is ...
    Posted to Imagethief (Weblog) by will on September 2, 2008
  • Foreign media vs. Wang Wei II, plus the trouble with transcripts

    Via the China Digital Times, this outstanding excerpt from the transcript of Wednesday's IOC/BOCOG press conference (the ninth in a wretched series, we are informed). I've excised some back and forth between the question and response: South China Morning Post: Mr. Wang and Giselle, we did get to know there were 77 applicants to the protest. ...
    Posted to Imagethief (Weblog) by will on August 22, 2008
  • Foreign media incidents during the Olympics: So much for detente

    The latest incident report from the Foreign Correspondents Club of China is out. It doesn't make for pretty reading:BEIJING: OFFICERS ROUGH UP AP PHOTOGRAPHERS, SEIZE MEMORY CARDS August 20, 2008: Two Associated Press photographers attempting to cover an Olympics-timed protest were ...
    Posted to Imagethief (Weblog) by will on August 22, 2008
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