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To: brian h who wrote (2650)	12/9/2005 5:18:48 PM
From: brian h	Respond to of 218595

You can read more about it following this link. zonaeuropa.com The Shanwei Incident The following is an illustration of the level of details in coverage by English- and Chinese-language media of the same event. The listing is done in order of increasing details within the English-language reports, and then the translated Chinese-reports appear below. I have listed only the sections pertaining to the incident itself and omitted background information. There is a set of photographs from the scene earlier in October. This is not intended as criticism of any of the media. Rather, the point is used to show how the media operate with different levels of space, access to information and journalistic standards for reportability. Please note how almost everybody else had to rely on the Radio Free Asia report. The Shanwei incident has been going on for more than five months and Radio Free Asia was covering it while nobody else paid much attention. Then when the violence broke out, Radio Free Asia already had the background information as well as sources on the ground. It was a lot harder for others to catch up. You can see that they tried (e.g. calling up the police and being given no information). Please also note that some services felt that it necessary to qualify Radio Free Asia as "US-government supported" or at least as "U.S. broadcaster." The Epoch Times item at the bottom stands out from the rest. If everyone else refers to several hundred or more than 1,000 police officers, they say 2,000 to 3,000. If everybody else refers to three dead with names given, they say more than ten dead instead. If everybody else refers to tear gas canisters fired at close quarters as the cause of death, they say that the armed police sprayed the villagers with submachine gunfire instead.