Live in New York City with veteran China journalist Ian Johnson
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Are You Cherry Picking the Few Weirdos in China?
I think social media just reinforces that. It makes it so easy to find what you're looking for and it's so quick. You are living much more in these echo chambers that you can't avoid it, really. And do you think it's much worse for China journalism than it is for journalism about anything really? Elon Musk tweets something and that provides what we used to call inches and inches of column space. I think it's a problem across the board. Maybe China is just more pronounced because to some degree it matters so much but also it's a harder place to report on.
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