Articles re Hangzhou kitten crusher

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Animal cruelty in the mainland press

by Joel Martinsen (last update: March 2, 06 02:13 PM)

 

For those of you following the uproar currently

surrounding a set of cat-crushing photos posted

online, here's a rundown on how a few of China's

newspapers are treating the story (note that following

the links may expose you to unsavory images of animal

cruelty):

 

In Beijing:

 

The Beijing Morning Post: 1 March, ran a story

entitled " High heels crush a kitten's head. " Three

images, the most gruesome being one of a heel about to

strike the kitten's eye. Text reported on forum

speculation about Hangzhou, and information about the

relevancy (or lack thereof) of the law. It was paired

with a story about 10,000 yuan in donations for a cat

whose owner burnt its ears off last week.

 

The Beijing News: 2 March, ran a story entitled

" Images of a woman torturing a kitten anger netizens. "

Four pictures, the most gruesome the same as BMP's.

Text (by a Southern Metropolis Daily correspondent)

included excerpts from forum posts and a general

summary of the situation.

 

In Shanghai:

 

Xinming Evening News: Ran an article entitled " Xinmin

Evening News joins with bloggers to find the woman who

tortured the kitten, " as well as another article in

its real estate supplement that cited statistics

linking cruelty to pets with domestic violence and

child abuse.

 

Shanghai Morning Post: Ran an article entitled " Behind

the curtain of the woman torturing the kitten affair, "

which added further investigation into the shady world

of animal torturing organizations.

 

And the wanted poster above, which calls for the woman

to be beaten in the street or sent to a

slaughterhouse, comes from a Southern Metropolis Daily

article on the online response to the pictures.

 

Other papers across the country picked up the Beijing

Morning Post article, and it appears that most felt it

appropriate to print the images carried in that

article, although the final few bloody images are

(thankfully) still too much for the print media.

 

http://www.danwei.org/archives/002436.html

 

 

 

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