Jottings from the Granite Studio

Seems like somebody was out sick the day the Kool-Aid was passed around at the Annual China Daily staff picnic and KTV party:

China Daily columnist (h/t CDT) You Nuo writes:

The lack of investigative reporting also has to do with the fact that, despite the award ceremonies that appear in the press almost daily, there has never been an award for investigative journalism. In a society where saving face is traditionally more valued than telling the truth, sometimes people have to wait for a problem to reach shocking proportions before they can react to it.

As for the lack of legal enforcement, as quoted by China Youth Daily, Fu said the biggest difficulty he encountered was “the cold-heartedness of law-enforcement authorities”.Government departments in Shanxi “showed little concern and were only passive about taking any action” against local brick kiln owners’ offenses. Some, he said, “attempted in many ways” to block efforts to rescue the child slaves. Fu even told of a labor inspector’s direct exploitation of child workers.

The shock goes beyond the report of the extent of the Shanxi slavery. It reveals that the cause of such rampant challenges to modern law