The danger of speaking to reporters in China

Richard Spencer, the Daily Telegraph's correspondent in Beijing, considers the ethics of identifying people who speak to western reporters China. Fu Xiancai, who gave an interview to a German TV station about the corruption involved in the building of the Three Gorges Dam, was last week found unconscious in a ditch. Spencer wonders whether he should have been identified and asks, not for the first time: "What are we journalists up to in China?" (Via Telegraph Blogs)