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China Silences Media on School Collapses

Negative press is hurting shining reviews of relief effort

By Matt Cantor,  Newser Staff

Posted Jun 2, 2008 6:27 AM CDT

(Newser) – China has called on domestic media to quit reporting on widespread school collapses in the Sichuan earthquake, the Financial Times reports. Some parents hold the government accountable for poor construction they say claimed thousands of children’s lives, and the furor has hurt the positive reviews of China’s response to the quake. Parents continued to highlight the issue this weekend.

“We blame the local government for this,” one mother said at the rubble that was her child's school. “The central government doesn’t know because local media haven’t reported what happened.”

The father of a student who died in a school's collapse cries at the site in Wudu, southwestern China's Sichuan province, Saturday.
The father of a student who died in a school's collapse cries at the site in Wudu, southwestern China's Sichuan province, Saturday.   (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
A boy plays at the collapsed Juyuan middle School following the May 12 earthquake, on Children's Day in Juyuan town, southwestern China's Sichuan Province, Sunday.
A boy plays at the collapsed Juyuan middle School following the May 12 earthquake, on Children's Day in Juyuan town, southwestern China's Sichuan Province, Sunday.   (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
Parents break down in tears Sunday during a memorial service for their children, killed in the collapse of an elementary school building in southwest China's Sichuan province.
Parents break down in tears Sunday during a memorial service for their children, killed in the collapse of an elementary school building in southwest China's Sichuan province.   (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
A father holds a portrait of his daughter as he stages a sit-in in front of the city hall of Mianzhu, in southwest China's Sichuan province, on Sunday.
A father holds a portrait of his daughter as he stages a sit-in in front of the city hall of Mianzhu, in southwest China's Sichuan province, on Sunday.   (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
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