« on: September 04, 2008, 08:40:06 AM »
The stories I write sometimes catch the attention of editors at Xinhua, the state-run news service in China. If the stories are positive, Xinhua sometimes snatches them and distributes them. Far as I know, they don't pay a dime. What they do is, er, polish them. That is, they take out anything negative.
This doesn't just happen to me. It happens to all resident foreign correspondents in China.
This serves several purposes for Xinhua and its readers. For masses of readers, it makes them think that foreign journalists are completely admiring of modern China and have nothing negative to say. A slightly more discerning reader may think foreigner reporters are saps. They know that China has warts, and may wonder why the foreign journalists don't see them.
Only very savvy readers know that Xinhua guts the negative from stories.
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