SHAME-FREE thread: ask the dumbest question you have about the Hong Kong protests. I'll try to answer it or loop in a real Hong Konger to answer it for you. No question too ignorant or basic.
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Replying to @Pinboard
If what I see on Twitter is correct, why is large western media seemingly utterly incapable of transporting important bits of the protest?
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Replying to @JMoVS
There's been lots of really good coverage in the Western media. Reuters, Guardian, WSJ, Foreign Policy, the Washington Post all come to mind. The New York Times has been really weird, with some substantive articles but really misleading headlines and big omissions in coverage.
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Replying to @Pinboard
Hmm. I was looking at German media and for me, essential facts like the specific targeting and not just „rioting“ etc, all those points were not as well expressed as I saw on Twitter through you and others...
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Replying to @JMoVS
There is a really big distinction between property damage and violence against people that I wish was better expressed in foreign coverage. The level of actual violence in these protests is exceptionally low, even as targeted attacks on property have escalated
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Replying to @Pinboard
Exactly. Or the way they framed the mask law without acknowledging that it was the first time in what, 40 years?, that the grounds for it were used
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Yes. The story there wasn't the mask law, but the use of emergency powers after endless cant about the rule of law
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