Looking at the map, I realized that Chengdu 49 Middle School is only 2 km away from where I live now. I sometimes have to ride my bike past this school gate when I go to Xinshan Bookstore for coffee.
This map is really sad. The mother’s sadness and anger is understandable, but I am not writing this article to comment on the facts themselves, since the public security department has already intervened in the investigation and I believe the facts will be released eventually.
I want to talk about the “public opinion” of this matter, the use of this word seems a bit cold-blooded. Then let’s put it another way: this mother’s grief and anger, both the death of her son to make their own unacceptable, but also “sadness nowhere to tell”, when a person into her such despair When a person is in such despair, who should she turn to?
What touched me was the reaction of two “friends” to this matter. They are both local people, in my circle of friends, but have never met in person. One was a homeowner in my neighborhood, and she sent me a private message asking, “Is that doll from our neighborhood? “Another, also not far from the neighborhood, likewise sent me a private message expressing concern, “What happened? “She thought that the child who had the accident, and I know.
Another way to look at it is this: if you do not know, and not around, why would you send a circle of friends to pay attention to this matter?
The grieving mother is usually the same person. She is “an ordinary mother, has always been a good citizen, believe in the government, believe in the party and believe in our people, and now my son is gone, but I can not even make a sound (out) like a mute … …” “I’ve seen this kind of news many times but never thought it would happen to me one day. “
According to her, she spoke to several media outlets and everyone said there was nothing they could do.
This does not come as a surprise. I don’t know which media outlets she approached, there is no Cover News and Red Star News, two local media outlets that are famous in the local area and also promote themselves as having national influence. In the age of paper media, Chengdu is known as the third city of media, the local media is quite developed, but in the face of such an event, everyone is silent.
If you are surprised by this, you are pretending to be a foreign guest. What I’m surprised about is not the media’s reaction, but the mother herself – she sent out three Weibo posts, @ several organizations, none of which were “local news media “.
This is the crux of the matter: readers understand your silence, which is the real silence, readers have given up on you or no longer have hope for you. More than a decade ago, when I first came to work in the Chengdu media, I answered a hotline at the newspaper. One reader, whose turtle was sick, had to call the newspaper to ask what to do, and now that the reader’s son was gone, she no longer wanted to ask the newspaper for help.
This woman’s Weibo @ several organizations, those that in her opinion can bring hope. There was the Chengdu Communist Youth League (which has relevance to high school students), there was “Micro Chengdu” and “Chengdu Services There are local microblogs like “Chengdu” and “Chengdu Service”, and, surprisingly, “China People’s Daily”.
What’s surprising is that the school in question also @ “People’s Daily of China” when releasing the official news, but they seem to have gotten it wrong. media is “People’s Daily”, not “People’s Daily of China”. China People’s Daily”. I checked, there is no such account as “China People’s Daily” on Sina Weibo (and no one dares to pretend to be one).
In front of the “People’s Daily” plus “China The word “China” in front of “People’s Daily” is a meaningful scene, representing the highest and ultimate media imaginable by ordinary people, and that is the most hopeful imaginable – unfortunately, you are @ the wrong one.
Between “an ordinary mother” and “China There is a huge gap between “an ordinary mother” and “the People’s Daily”, and that is the disappearance of the local media or the community that can be relied on. A citizen should seek hope and help in his own city. No one wants this to happen to them, but misfortune is really random, and if it happens to you, who will you turn to for help?
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