MCLC: China Digital Times (March 14)

[Denton, Kirk]

MCLC LIST
From: Anne Henochowicz <anne at chinadigitaltimes.net>
Subject: China Digital Time (March 14)
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This Week on China Digital Times (Mar. 14):

http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2014/03/week-cdt-march-14-2014/

As the world awaits information about the fate of Malaysia Airlines Flight
MH370, art appears to be one way of coping with the uncertainty. A drawing
by Weibo user Meng Chenshang depicts the plane attached to a fishing line.
God stands on a cloud holding the rod, an angel by His side. It’s unclear
if He is reeling the plane toward Him or if He is saving it from falling
into the water below. A crowd, heads upturned, watches from below. CDT’s
Badiucao illustrates the missing plane as the Twitter Fail Whale, held
aloft by a flock of birds.

The Ministry of Truth steers the media away from independently analyzing
or commenting on the lost Malaysia Airlines flight and instead insists on
increased publicity of the annual meeting of the National People’s
Congress.

At least one story that emerged from the meeting of the National People’s
Congress, however, is off-limits: a squabble that arose between two Party
Officials after one hurled accusations of “formalism” at the other.

This week’s Defunct Agency of the Week: the Ministry of Bullying, a.k.a.
the Ministry of Railways, which came under scrutiny in 2011 following the
Wenzhou train collision.

And finally, censors instruct media outlets not to hype the story of a
tunnel collision and explosion that left 31 dead and nine missing in
Shanxi.