{"id":2872,"date":"2005-04-24T16:59:23","date_gmt":"2005-04-24T23:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2005\/04\/24\/eswn-qa-about-huaxihuankantou\/"},"modified":"2005-04-24T16:59:23","modified_gmt":"2005-04-24T23:59:23","slug":"eswn-qa-about-huaxihuankantou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2005\/04\/eswn-qa-about-huaxihuankantou\/","title":{"rendered":"ESWN: Q&A about Huaxi\/Huankantou"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nESWN has posted a series of questions and answers<\/a> about the recent riots at Huankantou, based on translations of several documents about the incident. The first question:\n<\/p>\n \nQ:\u00ac\u2020 Is it true that there is a total news blackout on the Huaxi\/Huankantou incident <\/a>and the only available information comes from western media?<\/p>\n Are these the sole purveyors of information on this matter?\u00ac\u2020 You must be joking.\u00ac\u2020 None of these reporters are likely to be admitted anywhere near the scene, as Didi Kirsten Tatlow’s story <\/a>shows.\u00ac\u2020 So where did these reports come from?\u00ac\u2020 The western reporters were mostly relying on Chinese media, especially the Internet.\u00ac\u2020 In fact, there was a torrent of information inside China within the first couple of days.\u00ac\u2020 The Dongyang portal even ran an online poll about who was at fault — the government or the citizens?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ESWN has posted a series of questions and answers about the recent riots at Huankantou, based on translations of several documents about the incident. The first question: Q:\u00ac\u2020 Is it true that there is a total news blackout on the Huaxi\/Huankantou incident and the only available information comes from western media? Are these the sole […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[1352,1224,1268],"class_list":["post-2872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-society","tag-dongyang","tag-huankantou","tag-huaxi","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\n