The junket to Tibet

There is currently some discord amongst the foreign correspondents of Beijing:

The Chinese government has invited between seven and nine foreign journalists to Lhåsa to check out the situation themselves. The problem has been caused by the invitation list: AP is on, but Reuters is not. The Wall Street Journal and USA Today are also confirmed to be on the list.

Furthermore, according to Danwei sources, the invited media have not agreed to pool their reporting and video, meaning that the left out newspapers and new agencies will have to rely on their competitors for second hand information, photos and video.

But the debate may be merely academic: sitting in Beijing with a mobile phone and a modem, anyone with sufficient curiosity probably has access to better information than any of the Potemkin nonsense that the junket journalists will probably see.

This article is from Danwei.org

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