Riots in Xinjiang, China

These days there have been some media coverage about the riots in Xinjiang, China. What strikes me is how biased the news is based on who is telling them. So far the most neutral source I found is wikipedia.org. That site is probably closest to the truth, but you should never trust anything you read. So if you are interested you can read about the Ürümqi riots there.

For reference you can read some here in Swedish:
http://www.dn.se/nyheter/sverige/kravaller-i-kinesiska-xinjiang-1.905589
http://www.dn.se/nyheter/varlden/hankinesiska-motdemonstrationer-mots-med-targas-1.906625
http://www.dn.se/nyheter/varlden/nya-kravaller-i-vastra-kina-1.907036
http://www.dn.se/nyheter/varlden/soldater-strommar-in-i-urumqi-1.907126
http://www.dn.se/nyheter/varlden/kinesisk-polis-forsoker-stoppa-nya-oroligheter-i-urumqi-1.907175

http://www.dn.se/nyheter/varlden/stor-oro-bland-uigurer-i-sverige-1.906102
http://www.dn.se/nyheter/varlden/terroriststamplade-organisationer-beskylls-for-upplopp-1.907259
http://www.dn.se/nyheter/varlden/kina-expert-socialt-missnoje-bakom-valdet-1.906834
http://www.dn.se/nyheter/varlden/konfrontationen-parallell-till-konflikten-itibet-1.906387

It looks like the same no matter what Swedish news paper you read. Probably because no reporter is on the remote location anyway and all information they get is from TT and for some reason this information can be trusted so no one is checking anything before printing the news.

Do you know of any truly neutral news source out there?

It is really a joke if one has to trust a wiki to get "reliable" information about current happenings.

The White House 2.0

The government of U.S.A. with Barack H. Obama is doing an impressive effort of modernizing the spreading of information. In the official blog from the white house they write about their new channels of information using Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Flickr, Vimeo, YouTube and iTunes.

I think Sweden might be a bit behind here. There are probably many but I only know about one blog being written by a politician and that is one that left office for several years ago. That might say something about the Swedish politicians ability to reach the Swedish people... or maybe it say more about my interest in Swedish politics.