A Chinese journalist recounting on the extremely tight police control to the site of #MU5735's plane crash last week in #China. The journalist talked about how the path to enter the town from north and south were both heavily controlled by police and other personnel.
https://twitter.com/Tracy_Wen_Liu/status/1507937112968114185
"One colleague arrived the afternoon when the plane crashed. They were unable to enter the town through the highway so the colleague tried to get through several mountains and got there after more than four hours. He took a few photos from afar and was taken away by staff."
"On the same night, we discovered a small country road between the two checkpoints but cars were able to get through the country road, so the next day, we decided to get to the crash site through scooter."
"One netizen originally didn't want to rent the scooter to us but after learning that we are journalists, he reduced the charge of renting the scooter and wished us luck and asked us to share more information about the plane crash."
When the journalist arrived near the crash site the next morning at 9 am, the team was immediately stopped by local staff at the checkpoint. They later learned that another journalist walked to the crash site after being stopped at one checkpoint.
They followed her instruction to walk towards the crash site and as they tried to sneak through a bridge that was guarded by government personnel, the water was too deep so they couldn't get across. After searching around for potential openings for them to get to the crash ...
... site, they gave up. The other journalist who got to the crash site also said she wasn't able to report from the scene. Any journalist with identification cards would be sent out and those without identification cards need to leave records with the police.
The journalist said maybe the public thought they only need official media like CCTV or Xinhua News Agency. The journalist said if anyone tried to review major breaking news in #China over the last 20 years, they will find that a lot of truth were discovered through ...
... unconventional practices but the journalist lamented that the number of journalists doing such works is dwindling in #China.
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