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However, Matt Bai, a correspondent for The New York Times Magazine, warned that the Internet will not work for all the candidates, and that it will be four to five years before the Internet becomes more important to campaigns...
...Bai also discussed the recent rise of the conservative Fox News Network and similarly conservative radio shows. These programs offer a varying viewpoint, he said, for people who feel they cannot connect with the issues dominating mainstream media. Bai criticized the assumption that those who watch Fox News are “dumb” or “under-educated,” and said that although Fox News might only present one side, other news outlets have the same problem...
...media loves a hypocrite, and it loves a Goliath, so students who find a good storyline about how the university is saying one thing and doing another will always find a good reception,” says Bai, who says he got many calls from PSLM at Newsweek, where he was a national correspondent at the time...
...Undeterred, 20 towns-people decided to travel to Harbin in late October to plead with the provincial authorities. While waiting for their bus, they were accosted by five county leaders, five police cars and 25 cops. The secretary of the local Public Security Bureau, Bai Qingzhu, asked them who their leaders were, but they said they didn't have leaders. Bai ordered five of the 20 detained, including Su. "They told me we were guilty of illegal organizing," says Su. The five were held in the county jail for 20 days. "We had to sleep on the ground," recalls...
...trader came to the village. He spoke of riches beyond a poor farming family's dreams: $2,000 now and more to follow when Pim sent money home from Thailand. Her mother told her she would be working as a mae bai, a maid. Pim, who had no reason to doubt her, found herself being packed off. The trader, keen to make a trip so far up-country pay, had hired a minivan: Pim describes how her first day in captivity was spent driving from village to village as the man picked up a total of 12 girls. Bribing...