The Georgia "Virgin Prostitutes" Case: A Modern Day Rashomon

by whdxhw on 2009-07-24 16:54:28

Popper said that the truth can only be infinitely approximated but never obtained. For science, this is a method and an attitude; for society, it may perhaps become a kind of helplessness and sorrow. The clamor surrounding the "Yunnan virgin prostitution case" seems destined to become a Rashomon where the police and the media each stick to their own version of events. When Wu Hao, Yunnan Province's deputy minister of propaganda and former Xinhua News Agency reporter, posted directly pointing out the faults in reports by Beijing News and Phoenix TV reporters, this already fading Rashomon drew back the curtain on the next act...