Comments on: “Christ, Xinhua, It’s FRIDAY NIGHT” And Other Tweets From Foreign Correspondents

By: » Bo Xilai Officially Expelled From Communist Party, Public Office, Everything Beijing Cream

Sun, 04 Nov 2012 10:07:29 +0000

[...] to form, it’s nice to see the Chinese government is choosing such opportune times to make announcements that only foreign media would care to [...]

By: The Good Doctor

The Good Doctor — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 05:22:35 +0000

typical journalists, assuming the timing of the news was somehow connected to them.

By: FT Alphaville » Further reading

FT Alphaville » Further reading — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 06:28:11 +0000

[...] – “Christ, Xinhua, it’s FRIDAY NIGHT!” [...]

By: tipster

tipster — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 17:46:37 +0000

It wasn’t just foreign correspondents who were pissed off at the timing At the SARFT mothership China Radio Intl, chinese staff were steaming as well. Like Global Times and China Daily mostly, CRI is not allowed to generate any “real” news on its own and has to depend on Skinyua to kick start it.
Huge headaches and sudden last minute conferences still going on at 9pm for folks who’d had to miss flights and trains for Super Golden Week.
Hey..but news and shit happens.

By: Andrewfx51

Andrewfx51 — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 14:01:11 +0000

The analogy at the start, and the tweets, coupled with the current situation remind me a little of C. J. Koch’s “The year of living dangerously”. Isn’t there a bit of biting the hand that feeds in these off-the-cuff (albeit hilarious) comments?

By: Jess

Jess — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 09:31:00 +0000

John Chin~ <3

By: One of the pretend Digby Rosseses

One of the pretend Digby Rosseses — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 08:43:20 +0000

Ha nice piece