Posted on 07/25/2011 1:44:40 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
..................One popular comment circulating around the Chinese internet said: "When a country is corrupt to the point that a single lightning strike can cause a train crash [...] none of us is exempt. China today is a train travelling through a lightning storm. We are not spectators; all of us are passengers."
Chinese officials have instructed the media not to sensationalise the accident, and fresh instructions sent to reporters yesterday said: "Do not report the accident too frequently. Report moving stories about people donating blood or taxi drivers not taking fares from victims. Do not investigate the cause of the accident."
The instructions added: "The name of the Wenzhou accident will be 'The 23 July Wenzhou Line Railway Accident'. From now on, use the headline: 'Great Love in the Face of Great Tragedy'. On television, provide the relevant information, but be careful of the music used."
The Global Times, a government-run newspaper, said the crash would be a "bloody lesson" for China's "entire railway industry" and should be a "starting point for safer railway standards". However, it urged the public "to make rational judgements".
Three senior rail officials have been fired in the wake of the crash, including the head of the Shanghai railway bureau. A spokesman for China's Railways ministry, Wang Yongping, also held a press conference in which he reaffirmed China's "confidence" in its high speed rail network, which was, until the crash, a beacon of the country's technological ambitions.
Mr Wang was shouted at by reporters, however, after he fielded questions on a four-year-old girl who was found alive in the wreckage at 4pm on Sunday, at least six hours after a formal announcement that all the bodies in the carriages had been removed. Mr Wang said the discovery was a "miracle".
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Sounds familiar.
There are continuing reports of civil stife in China. When it flys apart we’re in deep do-do with the administration we have here.
For now we’re holding our own by “clinging to our guns and our religion” aka “bitter clingers.”
What’s funny is the US media has probably been following the guidelines instinctively. Certainly wouldn’t want to sully the notion of grand infrastructure projects set forth by the central authorities in the name of Progress!
Reporters shouting at an official?
the kid’s survival a “Miracle”.
A miracle from God?
The party is slipping.
Goes to show that the China we have come to know is right now a country built on a “house of cards”,
Obama's too. There are hundreds of billions slated for the left's obsession with choo choo's.
“Do not report the accident too frequently. Report moving stories about people donating blood or taxi drivers not taking fares from victims. Do not investigate the cause of the accident.” ...it’s Bush’s fault.
Talking points sound similar to our state run media.
I had heard before that this Chinese high speed rail is an image project thrown together on the cheap to enhance the CCP’s prestige, and this seems to prove it.
What would Willie Green say?
What?
Thank you for the link - contain and control.
All aboard!!! chugga-chugga chugga-chugga, ZZZZzzzzztttttt!!! Woot-woo!!!!!!! Look Mommy, MagLev made lightening.
Railroads also moved lots of people but at a slower pace than we deem needed today which is why passenger trains are rare.
What would be a "miracle" would be the marketplace sorting of trains versus alternates WITHOUT government forced "choices".
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