The grassroots Journalists Home News Prize this year honoured work on domestic violence, Covid memory, thallium pollution, rural pensions, and the criminal justice system.
"The night Dr Li Wenliang died was perhaps the moment during the pandemic when public anger on the Chinese internet burned most intensely". Really?
12/26/2019. Dr. Zhang Jixian reported the first Coronavirus patient to her Wuhan hospital and the CDC.
12/27. Beijing specialists, CCDC arrive Wuhan.
12/30. Dr. Li PMs mass-texts to former schoolmates: "7 SARS patients. Be careful!"
12/31. Alerted by Dr. Li's message, 150,000 residents flee Wuhan.
12/31. China warns WHO, CDC of 'a coronavirus of unknown origin'.
1/1 Dr. Li's hospital warns him about creating public panic.
1/3 Police warn Dr. Li not to spread rumors ask him to sign an agreement not to repeat it. Dr. Li returns to work.
Dr. Li was a good man who subsequently died of Covid, and he made a momentary slip. It's consequences were not dire, nor was he punished for it.
He just died! Is that punishment enough?
80,000 people died. Li's fuckup was not related to Covid, but to national security.
Thank you for putting it out.
"The night Dr Li Wenliang died was perhaps the moment during the pandemic when public anger on the Chinese internet burned most intensely". Really?
12/26/2019. Dr. Zhang Jixian reported the first Coronavirus patient to her Wuhan hospital and the CDC.
12/27. Beijing specialists, CCDC arrive Wuhan.
12/30. Dr. Li PMs mass-texts to former schoolmates: "7 SARS patients. Be careful!"
12/31. Alerted by Dr. Li's message, 150,000 residents flee Wuhan.
12/31. China warns WHO, CDC of 'a coronavirus of unknown origin'.
1/1 Dr. Li's hospital warns him about creating public panic.
1/3 Police warn Dr. Li not to spread rumors ask him to sign an agreement not to repeat it. Dr. Li returns to work.
Dr. Li was a good man who subsequently died of Covid, and he made a momentary slip. It's consequences were not dire, nor was he punished for it.
He just died! Is that punishment enough?
80,000 people died. Li's fuckup was not related to Covid, but to national security.
Thank you for putting it out.