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Author Archives: Joel Martinsen
Wen Jiabao takes a phantom train
State media reported that Wen Jiabao took the nonexistent D18 train back to Beijing.
Posted in Government
Tagged fake news, State Council, trains, Wen Jiabao
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Too many coincidences for one news headline
Two lottery players buy identical 5-million-yuan winning tickets at the exact same second. A newspaper reports that they share the same height, weight, and blood type, too.
Posted in Newspapers
Tagged lottery, Modern Evening Times, Untrustworthy News
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Deng Yujiao leaves court a free woman
Deng Yujiao is guilty of intent to harm but set free without punishment.
Posted in Front Page of the Day
Tagged Beijing Times, Deng Yujiao, Man Wenjun, The Beijing News
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Netizen detained in Nankang over photos of mass protest
Zuihulu, the Fanfou user who posted photos of a protest in Nankang, has been detained. Online media organizations are using his photos uncredited.
Object lessons in human cruelty
Wu Fei, an essayist and educator, uses the inclusion of Schindler’s List in a middle school textbook as the starting point for a discussion about the dehumanizing effect of on-screen killing, from televised executions intended to calm the anger of the public, to war movies that feature graphic violence.
Posted in Scholarship and education
Tagged @classic, executions, film, Mo Luo, Wu Fei
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Oddities in the Green Dam filtered words list
Fang Zhouzi discovers that Green Dam filters anti-filth, anti-cult phrases. Also, the Green Dam Girl makes a splash on the Internet.
Posted in Net Nanny Follies
Tagged Fang Zhouzi, Green Dam, manga, XYS
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Man charged for knife attack on ProState in Flames blogger
The man who stabbed ProState in Flames had previously been sent to prison embezzlement.
Posted in Blogs
Tagged law, ProState In Flames
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Everyone loves content filters, Xinhua says
Xinhua blames the media for the Green Dam controversy.
Posted in State media
Tagged censorship, content filters, Green Dam, Xinhua
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So Rock! says “never mind the machine”
So Rock! magazine for June, 2009, features a gagged Scream and a tank t-shirt.
Filtering software: parents worried about their children
Blogger Fei Dao sees another possible motive for the July 1 deadline for installing Green Dam filtering software.