{"id":10420,"date":"2011-07-25T12:49:21","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T16:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=10420"},"modified":"2011-07-25T14:52:33","modified_gmt":"2011-07-25T18:52:33","slug":"more-on-that-chinese-rail-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/07\/25\/more-on-that-chinese-rail-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"More on that Chinese rail crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The official story has changed a few times since the accident, and at least some Chinese feel they are entitled to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2011\/jul\/25\/chinese-rail-crash-cover-up-claims?CMP=twt_fd\" target=\"_blank\">the truth<\/a> about the accident:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Internet users attacked the government&#8217;s response to the disaster after authorities muzzled media coverage and urged reporters to focus on rescue efforts. &#8220;We have the right to know the truth!&#8221; wrote one microblogger called kangfu xiaodingdang. &#8220;That&#8217;s our basic right!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Leaked propaganda directives ordered journalists not to investigate the causes and footage emerged of bulldozers shovelling dirt over carriages.<\/p>\n<p>Wang, the railways spokesman, said no one could or would bury the story. He said a colleague told him the wreckage was needed to fill in a muddy ditch to make rescue efforts easier.<\/p>\n<p>But Hong Kong University&#8217;s China Media Project said propaganda authorities have ordered media not to send reporters to the scene, not to report too frequently and not to link the story to high-speed rail development. &#8220;There must be no seeking after the causes [of the accident], rather, statements from authoritative departments must be followed,&#8221; said one directive. Another ordered: &#8220;No calling into doubt, no development [of further issues], no speculation, and no dissemination [of such things] on personal microblogs!&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The official story has changed a few times since the accident, and at least some Chinese feel they are entitled to the truth about the accident: Internet users attacked the government&#8217;s response to the disaster after authorities muzzled media coverage and urged reporters to focus on rescue efforts. &#8220;We have the right to know the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,84,28,15],"tags":[459,363,185,593],"class_list":["post-10420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-government","category-media","category-technology","tag-censorship","tag-corruption","tag-highspeedrail","tag-socialmedia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2I4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10421,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10420\/revisions\/10421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}