Thursday, February 3, 2011

making a local issue national news

taking a break from preparing for my russian test, i ran across this story from npr's foreign dispatch podcast for the week of jan 28th. just thought it was an interesting discussion of how an issue that used to only be upsetting to a small group at the local level (the son of a chinese police chief kills 2 people while driving drunk and thinks he can get away with it because of his family connection) has now reached a national audience with the help of the internet...

www.npr.org/2011/01/26/133233065/Internet-Helps-To-Hold-Chinese-Accountable

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