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PressThink: National Explainer: A Job for Journalists on the Demand Side of News
I noticed something in the weeks after I first listened to “The Giant Pool of Money.” I became a customer for ongoing news about the mortgage mess and the credit crisis that developed from it. (How one caused the other was explained in [...]

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Olympics in Pictures via kwout

This picture is from the Times UK photographer Marc Aspland: quite nice and painterly. He’s photoblogging the Games but if you’re in China you probably have to use a proxy to read his typepad.com blog.

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美国侨报：世界应无恙，当惊中国殊——百度新闻搜索 via kwout

I was looking at this Baidu news page, scanning through some of the headlines. You notice that most of them are about how impressed the world is with the Olympics, with some obligatory fellow-feeling from the overseas Chinese newspapers. You might as well go ahead and call this the “Beijing Consensus”—though that term [...]

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I was just reading through a blog post from the Phoenix TV reporter Lvqiu Luwei (闾丘露薇) writes about the changes that occurred in Beijing as a result of the Olympics. She hopes that the changes, whether it be better signs and transportation to more polite people and better service attitude, will become permanent. Fair [...]

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So I subscribe to Shanghaiist events and i got this newsletter from SmartShanghai.com and this is what the first paragraph said:

Hey Shanghai!
Check yo’ delf! So many clubs opening in Shanghai I can’t even keep track of
them all.
But before we get to that - more importantly - “The Dark Night” opens in
theatres TONIGHT, son, [...]

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The Juyuan Middle School was one of the “worst” tragedies of the Wenchuan earthquake: the entirely school collapsed and took the lives of the hundreds of people that were inside it. Recent media attention in China has been focused on why certain buildings managed to stay upright while others completely collapsed. Shoddy construction, lack of [...]

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This interview is with an outspoken education official from Sichuan named Lin Qiang and was featured in a recent issue of Southern Weekend, a newspaper based out of Guangzhou, known (in the past), for some more independent, hard-hitting news and coverage of events.
Lin Qiang had been chosen to be a torch-bearer and was also invited [...]

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