I haven’t been to Chongqing since 2014. I bet it changed massively if I went back.
Moving to China, bye.
Me playing Cities Skylines 🤝 China
I mean, from that article:
Despite its seemingly outlandish location, Caojiawan Station’s location is part of an insightful plan that anticipates growth in rapidly modernizing China – so say Chongqing Rail Transit employees.
Even here the ‘so say’ bit clearly creates the same framing as the title.
The framing of journalistic neutrality? The headline is correct, the attribution is also correct. The article reports facts without editorialization. There was in fact a station in the middle of nowhere, the transit authority did indeed provide the quoted justification. Pictures went viral, it explained the pictures. If anything, it puts planning in a sympathetic light by reporting the intention instead of making fun of the station.
I just don’t think the article conveys the incomprehensibility of planning that you’re claiming it does. There are surely enough actual cases of that phenomenon that you don’t have to scrape the barrel for weak examples.
If you think that’s what journalistic neutrality looks like I really don’t know what else to tell you here.
What part of the headline or article is not neutral? It doesn’t disparage the existence of the station at all.
Yes and their box network is better than any old stars subway networks that you could find in Europe.
Yep and it’s also important to consider the political/economic climate.
The 2010s had most media groups reporting on rapid, ostensibly directionless growth in China. One of the more recognized themes were the “ghost cities”, so I imagine this got a lot of attention for its apparent absurdity. I honestly can’t remember this one but I must have seen a hundred stories like it.
Remember that western propaganda is always a projection, it was most likely a whataboutism for the real ghost towns in US and Eastern Europe where capitalism hollowed the local communities to the point of drastic population drop.
headline matters
Acknowledging a metro station in the middle of nowhere, in response to circulating pictures of it, is not really misleading at all. Headlines matter in getting people to read your article. The headline is accurate, and the article doesn’t ridicule the station, it just addresses it.
Unfortunately still not the best planning, the station drops people off besides what seems like an arterial road.
I took a look on Maps and it’s got a large parking structure, a shopping center, and some apartment buildings nearby.
So true, that road should be a tram line
