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local officials lied to the prime minister to hide the true toll at Xinjian
Ah, the Standard Operating Procedure in strongly hierarchic systems. There is no way to root this out, except with democratic feedback from the bottom up.
on the other hand, maybe the amount of incompetence and inefficiency that no doubt is happening, while very regrettable, may not be as high as we might expect.
Also, we can expect the USAmerican MSM to do the opposite to what the Chinese media might do: select out the worst. (Then again, the other NYT quote in your next comment speaks of anecdotal evidence of majority satisfaction with the rescue effort.) *Traitor*, n. A benighted individual who perceives an illusory distinction between serving his nation and abetting the criminals who govern it.
Also, we can expect the USAmerican MSM to do the opposite to what the Chinese media might do: select out the worst. (Then again, the other NYT quote in your next comment speaks of anecdotal evidence of majority satisfaction with the rescue effort.)
Yes, as I said in the comment above, while they do occasionaly point them out, I get the impression that the foreign press are not dwelling on negative aspects of the rescue effort as much as they could be at the moment, out of a sort of consideration for the state of shock that the country is in.
However, this honeymoon period is probably winding down, and we may be seeing a higher proportion of more aggressive critical reporting, as well as louder complaints from victims of the quake. A language is a dialect with an army and navy.
