Via The Peking Duck and CDT: A moving 10 minute+ video showing the victims and families of China’s multiple coal mining disasters. Economic progress marches on, but I think the faces in this video tell a far different story than the images of New China rising in Shanghai and Beijing ‘08.
According to CDT, the images and videos are all government-sourced but the creator is unknown. Not surpisingly this video has been banned in the PRC.
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1 Chris // Dec 10, 2006 at 9:07 pm
“One Englishman is a story. Ten Frenchmen is a story. One hundred Germans is a story. And nothing ever happens in Chile.”
–Memo by a British press lord and tacked up in his Fleet Street newsroom.
My old journalism teacher used to quote that when we talked about international reporting. I don’t know what the conversion is for China, but it seems astronomically higher than anywhere else. I remember the Sago Mine disaster from last summer, when 12 miners died, and it was presented as a national tragedy. Here, it seems a few dozen, sometimes a few hundred, die every week, and no one notices.
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