media - After the attack on Lu Banglie 5

ESWN has translated a few other notable statements by the Chinese journalist and blogger Michael Anti:

When Benjamin Joffe-Walt reported about happened to Lu Banglie, our immediate reaction was to believe him because we have believe in foreign media all along. We even started to prepare to donate money, voice support, sign petitions and make protests. But suddenly we were told that this was just a fantasy of Benjamin Joffe-Walt. You must realized what a major shift it is for us. Even though this does not destroy all of the trust by the civilian sector, it is for sure that the next time that The Guardian or any other foreign media reports on an exclusive about an incident, we cannot be naturally trusting.

Compared to that the official statement of the Shanghai Foreign Correspondents Club looks rather obligatory and shallow:

The Foreign Correspondents Club of Shanghai condemns the 8 October 2005 attack in Taishi Village, Guangdong, on Benjamin Joffe-Walt,correspondent for the Guardian (UK), and the brutal assault on his source Lu Banglie,provincial legislator. We are deeply concerned that journalists working in have had their lives and those of their sources and translators put at risk....

A bit more reflection in public would have been in order.