The title of this post is intended to be serious. ESWN reveals how news of the assault on the villagers of Shengyou, and the video recording of the incident, became global.:

The Beijing News reporter working on the Shengyou incident was also shut down when all coverage was banned even though he getting close to the culprits.  So he has also posted his field notes on the Internet.  This reporter enumerated his dealings with government officials during his work, and this is quite illuminating.
One should not count on this state of things to last too long.  It will be a matter of time before all reporters receive the order that no field notes shall be published outside.  Meanwhile, this is a brief opening in the history of Chinese media. 
Please be mindful that we don’t even see these types of field notes in the mainstream media in the western world.  Wouldn’t you want to know just how ‘journalists’ such as Judith Miller (NYT), Elizabeth Bumiller (NYT) and Sue Schmidt (WaPo) write their reports?  You may then understand how an ‘exclusive’ is obtained on a piece of politically motivated propaganda.  Or, from the other extreme, how Seymour Hersh (New Yorker) and Mark Danner (New York Review of Books) get their information?

Reas the rest, including translation of the reporter’s notes.