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Battle Blogging SUCKS.
2005-10-13, 5:39 AM #1
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Originally posted by WarrenEllis.com:
In this Los Angeles Times piece, Xeni Jardin coolly and sharply guts Yahoo! and lays out its intestines for consideration: bearing in mind how quickly it sold out a Chinese reporter who was later imprisoned for “divulging state secrets” (reporting a statement from the Communist Party’s Propaganda Department), it’s amazing that there are any guts in there at all. But, no, they’re courageous enough to send war reporter/suicide jockey Kevin Sites on a one-year round trip to “every armed conflict in the world” in the pursuit of news. So this is a news company that sells out newsmen and offers up whistlestop blood tourism as journalism.

Go and read the article.
幻術
2005-10-13, 11:03 AM #2
It reads like an editorial. It's too opinionanted. China has very strict internet use laws, and the guy violated them. While it sucks, that's the ay China is. Rather than blame Yahoo for giving up the guy's name, people should be up in arms about China and it;s lack of privacy protection for its citizens.
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2005-10-13, 11:34 AM #3
Yes, Communism is SO much better.
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2005-10-13, 11:39 AM #4
Originally posted by Jedigreedo:
Yes, Communism is SO much better.


That's kind of beside the point. I'm as pro-market as anyone here, but it was Yahoo's capitalistic desire for a larger market share in China that caused them to give up the information.
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2005-10-13, 11:49 AM #5
It was more likely Chinese law. Of course that the companies will go in despite the Chinese Government also says something.
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