CHO AND CHINA….Via Ross Douthat, James Fallows tells the story of what happened when one reporter made one mistake and identified the Virginia Tech shooter as a Chinese national: Fox and Drudge picked it up and the Chinese media subsequently went into full lockdown. Wow.
Moral of the story: get your facts right, kids. Second moral: freedom of the press sucks in China.
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