Media Blackout + Urban Legend

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(1) Sharon LaFraniere, Media Blackout in China After Wreck. New York Times, Aug 1, 2011.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/01/world/asia/01crackdown.html?scp=1&sq=wenzhou&st=cse

Note: A related report:
Patti Waldmeir, China Media Ban on Rail Crash Reports; Move sparks angry outcry online. Financial Times (FT), Aug 1, 2011
(last paragraph: "Saturday's Beijing News carried a full-page weatehr report on its front page, under the headline 'The Rain lasts for seven days,' which provoked Weibo comments claiming that 'seven days' was a veiled reference to the train crash")

* There is no need to read the rest of the FT report.
* Economic observer  经济观察报
* Beijing News  新京报
www.bjnews.com.cn

(2) Tom Orlik, Bright Lights, Big Questions About China's Urban Legend. Wall Street Journal, Aug 1, 2011 (in the page Heard on the Street).
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904800304576476363747579634.html
(Migrants in cities without hukou "have an average wage of around $3,600 a year, compared with an average of $5,700 for registered urban workers. * * * But although they might have built China's glittering new residential compounds, living in dormitories in twilight zones on the edges of the city they are hardly likely to buy an apartment in one of them")

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