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Subject: PRC Shows How to Beat the Press - Boot In Face Reporting
Softwar    8/5/2008 3:22:16 PM
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080805/ap_on_re_as/oly_china_press_freedom Friction between Chinese officials and journalists deepened Tuesday after police detained and roughed up the two Japanese journalists who were sent to cover Monday's suspected terrorist attack on police in the Xinjiang region in China's far west. Foreign affairs officials in the region said police had apologized to the pair and would pay for damage to their equipment and for medical checkups. Shinji Katsuta, a reporter for Japanese broadcaster Nippon Television Network Corp., said he and Shinzou Kawakita, a photographer from the Tokyo Shimbun newspaper, were grabbed by police late Monday and held for about two hours at a security facility. "My face was pushed into the ground, my arm was twisted and I was hit two or three times in the face," Katsuta said in a telephone interview broadcast by his station. The Foreign Correspondents Club of China said Kawakita had described being surrounded by paramilitary police, lifted off the floor by his arms and legs, kicked and then pinned to the floor by an officer's boot on his face. "This is utterly unacceptable any time. It's particularly reprehensible just days before the Olympics at a time when China has promised complete media freedom," said Jonathan Watts, the foreign correspondent club's chairman and a correspondent for the Guardian newspaper in Britain. Japan's chief Cabinet secretary, Nobutaka Machimura, told reporters in Tokyo that the government planned to "lodge a strong protest" with China over the incident.
 
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displacedjim       8/5/2008 5:59:42 PM
...and when their protest is ignored they will lodge a second strong protest, and when their second strong protest is ignored they will lodge a third strong....
 
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Nanheyangrouchuan       8/5/2008 11:20:46 PM
I'm sure that the PSB enjoyed beating Japanese journalists.
 
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Softwar       8/6/2008 12:40:04 PM
Finally - a demonstration of how actors like Sean Penn and the PSB think and act alike...  punching reporters is a way of life for the hollywood elite - and a way of living for the PSB.
 
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FJV    Not smart   8/6/2008 12:51:46 PM
The Western press for the majority part can be bought. Though you would have to be discrete about it.
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
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Softwar       8/6/2008 4:42:08 PM

The Western press for the majority part can be bought. Though you would have to be discrete about it.


I understand that Xinhua reporters can be purchased cheap - at a lower price than their western counterparts - because they are often badly underpaid.  I met a leading Xinhua reporter stationed in DC once at an embassy reception - his wife was very nicely dressed but I also noted that she still had the price tags on her clothing - somewhat hidden but they were still there.
I inquired about this later to one of my fellow press associates with a bit more experience and he noted that the Xinhua folks often made this kind of show.  At first I thought that he meant they were country -bumpkins and did not know better than to remove the tags - then I got his jist.  He pointed out to me that with the tags intact - the little woman could return the expensive dress to the store where they purchased it and get the money back.
 
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