Snowden Is in Hong Kong. Chinese Don’t Care.
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June 10 (Bloomberg) -- The saga of Edward Snowden, thesource of leaks about the U.S. government’s Prism program, isprecisely the sort of tale Hong Kong’s tabloid newspaper culturehas always embraced: full of suspense, driven by personality andsure to bring people back to buy the next day’s edition. Butwhile Hong Kong’s newspapers are busy combing the city forSnowden, mainland Chinese papers -- and the country’s usuallyscandal-loving social media -- are covering other stories.
What might account for the indifference?