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Typical disaster official ignores victims
By Wang Yong |
June 30, 2010, Wednesday
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IT misses the point to fingerpoint at one official for his gobbledygook rather than the officialdom itself that breeds nonsense.
In a live interview with CCTV on June 21, an official in charge of flood control in Jiangxi Province ignored the anchorman's question of whether people had been evacuated after one of the worst floods in history damaged a dam, threatening the security of about 150,000 local residents.
Instead, Ping Qijun, deputy director of the flood control department of Jiangxi, went on to recite a long namelist of various senior officials, heaping praise on them for their "wisdom" in fighting the flood.
Ping didn't care to tell the CCTV anchorman whether threatened residents were alive or not. To Ping, all is well that makes officials smile.
The CCTV anchorman twice interrupted Ping's officialese but ultimately failed to wring an answer from the man.
Since June 21, hundreds of thousands of Netizens have painted Ping as a villain and the CCTV anchorman a hero.
That's going too far.
Ping was far from a villain, he was quite typical in China's officialdom. He was trained to look "up" at his bosses rather than "down" at the people, despite our rhetoric of "people first." The CCTV anchorman was far from a hero, he only exposed the faults of a small potato. That's it.
In a live interview with CCTV on June 21, an official in charge of flood control in Jiangxi Province ignored the anchorman's question of whether people had been evacuated after one of the worst floods in history damaged a dam, threatening the security of about 150,000 local residents.
Instead, Ping Qijun, deputy director of the flood control department of Jiangxi, went on to recite a long namelist of various senior officials, heaping praise on them for their "wisdom" in fighting the flood.
Ping didn't care to tell the CCTV anchorman whether threatened residents were alive or not. To Ping, all is well that makes officials smile.
The CCTV anchorman twice interrupted Ping's officialese but ultimately failed to wring an answer from the man.
Since June 21, hundreds of thousands of Netizens have painted Ping as a villain and the CCTV anchorman a hero.
That's going too far.
Ping was far from a villain, he was quite typical in China's officialdom. He was trained to look "up" at his bosses rather than "down" at the people, despite our rhetoric of "people first." The CCTV anchorman was far from a hero, he only exposed the faults of a small potato. That's it.
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