I wanted to bring to your attention two news stories from this week that highlight the significant role the Chinese public is having in the nation’s response to their major earthquake and how this may have a major impact on citizen involvement in their government generally.
The lead story by Maureen Fan on the Washington Post’s front page Thursday, “Citizen Groups Step Up In […]
Tags: International
NPR’s Melissa Block had an interesting story about how many Chinese throughout the country communicated with each other directly after the earthquake using text messaging:
The first word about the massive earthquake in China did not come from the news media. In China, some 600 million people have cell phones, and when the quake hit, many reached for them — but not […]
Tags: Preparedness 2.0
A brief detour from the usual topics this weekend to mention that NPR’s On The Media is replaying a story I did a couple years ago about my attempt to train for a career in television punditry. Among those who tried to help along the way are Nipsey Russell, Joe Nocera, Paul Begala, as well as “the Jedi Master to television pundits”. You can be the judge on […]
Tags: Media
