Sunday, November 05, 2006

Hong Kong: Taxi Driver Hit The School Girl In The Head With A Hammer



Roland Soong compares the reporting in several Chinese-language newspapers and English-language South China Morning Post (no link, SCMP pay-wall) of an incident in Chai Wan yesterday.


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Mister B is not sure SCMP has any local reporters -- just sub-editors. They who daily sit behind their desks to re-write press releases issued by Hong Kong Government departments, PR companies, and the public affairs departments of Hong Kong Stock Exchange-listed companies.

All that stuff, plus the editing of all those international agency reports from AP and Reuters that also make up most of the SCMP's content.

Roland Soong: EastSouthWestNorth

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