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Magazine Takes Sexy Pics Amidst China Earthquake Rubble
Posted in The Vance Report on 05/21/2008 09:56 am by Robert Vance
A Chinese magazine is in big trouble, News24.com is reporting today, after it printed “pictures of scantily clad women posing in rubble for a special report on the country’s devastating earthquake, officials said on Wednesday.” The report identifies the guilty magazine as The New Travel Weekly which according to the article is “a lifestyle magazine” based Chongqing. While I do not support the Chinese government’s constant suppression of the media in this big country, I cannot complain about its decision to shut this magazine operation down. This is the kind of stunt that you might expect from a shock jock radio host in the U.S. to get attention. What was the magazine staff thinking when they shot these pictures? Hundreds of bodies and the occasional survivor are still being pulled out of the rubble in Sichuan and we are in the midst of three days of national mourning. The decision to use the earthquake destruction as a backdrop for a model shoot was highly irreverent and disrespects the victims’ families and the work that is still ongoing in the region. What amazes me is a quote in the report made by an employee who suggests that the magazine could re-open if the government approves. Really? I wonder what the Chinese people will have to say about that after they ‘get wind’ of this story. Forget about Carrefour and CNN. This is something to really protest about.
Read the story on http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_2326307,00.html
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05/21/2008 at 10:07 pm
[...] greatly disgusted by the actions of The New Travel Weekly in Chongqing which basically used the earthquake rubble as a backdrop for a model shoot. However, within the last 12 hours, it has become more clear to me why the magazine decided to [...]
05/28/2008 at 1:10 pm
Some people says that the photo shows the inside of the soul of the people in China…..
Ok. But what the photo really shows is a half-naked woman making a sexy pose on the place where fathers ands sons are dead… or am I wrong? The people like to go deep and forgot what they really are showing.
To make myself clear, the people that are in favor of the photos see like this:
“If have smoke, have fire”
but what the truth is:
“if have smoke, have smoke only”
05/28/2008 at 11:15 pm
@Rodrigo,
Thanks for your comments. I really think that this decision was all about money. It was a small magazine so maybe they wanted some attention. It was a poor decision and I think that they got some unwanted attention.
10/13/2008 at 7:58 am
During the first World War about 60,000 Canadian soldiers died at the Battle of Vimy Ridge in Northern France.
Recently a French couple showed their ‘gratitude’ to Canada, by making a pornographic film of themselves having sex at the Vimy memorial, then posting it on the internet, and then inviting viewers to pay to watch it…..For ‘desecration and exibitionism’ they were fined a puny 800 dollars by a French court, and given a four month suspended prison sentence. And they were far from being the first either, to ‘ vandalize the fallen’
I wonder what the citizens of Canada have to say about all this? ….At the very least, it just shows that some Westerners can be as gross and moneygrubbing as some Chinese.