静生：国际上很快也要更大篇幅力度报道国际周老虎全莉全老母虎跨国诈骗中国华南虎的事情。那更是一个离奇的故事。

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2008-7-5 04:38  
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在美国生活了20多年，很少见美国媒体花太多的篇幅报道当地（美国）消费者不太感兴趣的国外时事新闻。就包括当时国内媒体闹得沸沸扬扬的奥运圣火传递，
除CNN国际（CNN International,
内容跟CNN国内版差别很多），其实在美国只有很少很简单的报道。（一是美国媒体的国际关心不多，再就是美国人本来认为抗议和不同意见是天经地义的平常事，而我们国内同胞对抵制破坏圣火传递义愤填膺铺天盖地声讨）。
这次华南虎事件及其社会意义能在CNN.com的头版新闻（Headline
News)长篇详细地介绍给美国观众，确实说明他们认为这是一件在中国社会，政治，政府，互联网，民声等各方面都有重大意义的故事。
报道是AP发的（合众社新闻）。 AP报道这个事件，
在世界范围的影响，犹如新华社的报道在中国媒体，几乎每个主要媒体机构都有订购都有可能使用的。陕西华南虎，已经胜利地冲出陕西，
走向世界了。  这恐怕是陕西省政府始料不及的吧？
袁省长也算是为中国社会和政治的进步，在历史上做出了他并没有想要也没有想到的贡献。
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updated 2:23 p.m. EDT, Fri July 4, 2008
Faked tiger photo sparks Web furor
Story Highlights Officials offered
reward for finding an endangered South China tiger in the
wild
A farmer emerged from the woods with claim of a tiger sighting,
plus digital photos
China's online community immediately suspected the "too shiny"
photos were faked
'Photographer' arrested this week after officials confirmed the
photos as a hoax
SHANGHAI, China (AP) -- It all started with a
farmer, a photo and a claim -- a sighting of a rare tiger in the
local woods, curled up and staring right at the camera.
A man claimed a reward for snapping this
digital photo -- which proved to be faked -- of a rare South China
tiger.

Little did Zhou Zhenglong know his tiger would become one of
China's most fevered obsessions, one that ended this week with
confirmation the photo was faked and with more than a dozen
officials punished.
In the nine months since the first of Zhou's photos was released
and posted online, it ignited debate on issues that bedevil a
rapidly modernizing China -- faked goods, greed and officials'
lies.
Ultimately, the scandal revealed popular disgust with government
and corruption and showed that public opinion, amplified by the
Internet, can occasionally win out in authoritarian China.
"In my opinion, this is the struggle between the truth and
government interest," Yu Hai, a sociology professor at Fudan
University, said in a phone interview this week. "Zhou's just a
normal farmer who was inspired by money. The big boss behind this
is, of course, the officials of Shaanxi province."
First intrigued and then outraged by the photo, China's
online community quickly exposed it as a paper tiger -- an old
poster propped up among the trees -- and kept the pressure on
officials, accusing them of supporting the fake to boost tourism in
relatively poor Shaanxi.
"The government had to do some real investigation to make people
online shut up," said one young "netizen," Zhou Yi of
Shanghai.
The deep skepticism among Chinese toward the government, especially
local officials, was also made clear over the weekend, when
thousands rioted in the southwestern province of Guizhou over the
accusation that police poorly investigated the death of a teenage
girl.
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Online outrage has kept up pressure on the government, which this
week fired the local Communist Party secretary, county government
head, police chief and another official.
A year ago, online anger also pushed the central government to
investigate illegal labor practices after postings accused
authorities of ignoring the use of child slaves in brick
factories.
In a country where most protests are shushed and critical Internet
postings can be taken down as soon as they're put up, people in
China can be skilled at finding channels for their opinions. One
popular target is fakes. Fake products, fake credentials, even last
year's highlight -- a TV news story, itself accused of being faked,
about fake cardboard-filled buns.
The tiger story began when Zhou, a 54-year-old farmer and hunter,
heard that a person could win more than 1 million yuan (about
US$146,000) for finding an endangered South China
tiger in the wild, where it hadn't been seen in
more than 20 years, according to state media accounts.
Last October, he emerged from the woods in Shaanxi with his claim
of a tiger sighting, plus dozens of digital photos.
Officials in Shaanxi embraced his claim, awarding him 20,000 yuan
(about US$2,920) and praise at a press conference little more than
a week later.
"After the careful examination, experts confirmed the authenticity
of the photos. That means the tiger has been found again after more
than 20 years," the China Daily newspaper quoted Shaanxi Forestry
Administration Bureau Deputy Director Zhu Julong as saying.
The tiger had been thought to be extinct in the wild. The World
Wildlife Fund describes its wild population as "perhaps a few
individuals."
The glow didn't last. China's online
community almost immediately suspected a fake.
The tiger was too shiny, they said. And no matter where it was
snapped among the trees, its position never changed.
When someone came up with an old poster with a photo that looked
strikingly like the tiger and posted it online, the public called
for an official investigation.
But Shaanxi officials stuck to their story.
With a rare tiger in their area, the officials knew they could
bring in a lot of money by boosting tourism and creating a nature
reserve, said Yu, the university professor.
Finally, under increasing pressure, the Shaanxi officials confirmed
the photos as a hoax this week. Zhou was arrested on charges of
fraud, accused of propping up the poster in the woods and shooting
it with a borrowed digital camera.
But the anger in China isn't so much about Zhou.
"A small number of officials ignored science, common sense and
broiling public opinion to play with the public trust," the
Southern Metropolitan Daily, a popular newspaper known for its
aggressive reporting, said this week. "When the wisdom of the
people stripped away the emperor's new clothes, the officials lied
and used bureaucracy to keep the truth from coming out."
The newspaper even hinted that Zhou might have had some help from
officials.
In the end, only Zhou was arrested. His wife, Luo Dacui, couldn't
be reached by phone, but she told the Jiangsu province-based
Yangtse Evening News that her husband isn't the only person who
should take the blame.
Seven officials have been fired, including Zhu, the forestry
official, and six others have been disciplined.
Zhu seemed to brush off the punishment.
"I am now going to live a happy life which I will happily enjoy,"
the Southern Metropolitan Daily quoted him as saying.
Shaanxi authorities held a disciplinary meeting on Monday and urged
thousands of officials to attend. But a photo of the meeting in the
Shanghai Morning Post the next day showed some of the officials
sleeping.
"I think it looks quite funny, but it's actually very sad," said
Jiang Chenkui, a Shanghai-based lawyer. "It means that our
government officials lack a basic sense of honesty. That's pretty
bad."
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