media - Greedy reporters and others cash in at mine disaster

I missed this amazing translation by ESWN on the media events surrounding the coal mine disaster in Ruzhou, earlier this month, but CSR has put me back on the track. It documents the way how this mine disaster could happen without being reported in the media, because the reporters and those who claimed to be reporters were routinely paid to shut up.
One more sincere reporters hear that several who claim to work for his paper has been at the scene and he goes to investigate. This had happened at Ruzhou:

The informed source told us that many "media reporters" including someone who claimed to be from our newspaper went to Ruzhou to collect their "wages." On July 31, a certain coal mine in Ruzhou was flooded by water. Many of the workers were able to escape, but there were some casualties.

A few provincial media and SMS's reported about the incident and then reporters - real and fake - flooded to the scene. The reporters notes a scene between a local official, director Yang and three reporters who claim to work for a famous magazine:

Director Yang: Since you are here, what can we say? But the money has already been given out to the first comers.
Media: You watch what happens. It is not easy for us to come here. We have to drive here, and that is expensive enough.
Director Yang: We are friends. We cannot say that we don't welcome you, but we have to follow the regulations.
Media: We know that. This is not our first time here, and this is not the first time that you have an incident here.
Director Yang: It is good that you know. You are from Three Peasants, and there has been already more than a dozen of you here today. How do you explain that? As I said before, since you are here, we can't let you leave empty-handed. How about this? One hundred RMB per person.
Media: Then you are treating us with contempt. We are old enough already and we are tall enough. We can't just take one hundred 100 RMB.
Director Yang: Let me take better care of you. How about 300 RMB per person?
Media: No way.

The sincere reporter gets 1,000 rmb as compensation (and says he returns it to the paper) and goes on:

According to Director Yang, the media were sorted into classes: those who claimed to come from big central media received 500 to 1,000 RMB; those who claimed to be from various big provincial media got 200 to 500 RMB; and all those city-level media got 200 media; those who are reporting out of their specialties (editor's note: for example, an information technology news reporter should not be covering a mining disaster) or regions received 100 RMB.
During this distribution, there were 480 people from more than 100 media and they received 200,000 RMB. Director Yang said that Ruzhou was just too poor and so they paid out much less than at the mining incidents at the cities of Dengfeng and Xinmi.

A small illustration of the quality of the media in China. There are examples for the better, but they are literally flooded by this kind of gold diggers.