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Ha, I did read it actually.
It's funny, this is coming up at the same time that I'm talking to a friend in the states about media reporting and how we go about getting our information, and both of us have found ourselves spending more time looking at things from three or four different countries and media types (Huffington Post, New York Times, blog from interested expert, Al Jeezera and NPR) before dividing by pi and coming up with our own opinions.
Does this make me feel better informed? Nope, it just makes me more aware that everything I'm reading is written by a thinking, feeling person who has there own ideas of right and wrong.
Now, I pointed out that Apple talks about what it's own issues are with Foxconn, and I think I said that I thought it was great. Original source transparency is so important.
We live in an interesting time, and I think it's worthwhile to spend the time to look at what we buy and why, where it's made and how, and to have debates like this (even in inappropriate threads) as we are very lucky to have someone who works in technology and someone who works in manufacturing in China sharing their first hand opinions with people like me, that are just interested in the dispersal of information.