Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by pwang 4392 days ago
I was here in the US during Tiananmen. The western media at the time reported the full story about the "tank man", and that he was pulled away. No western outlet (that I can recall) ever asserted that he was crushed by the tank. They were showing the utterly remarkable video on a loop, constantly - the tank trying to drive around him, but not being willing to run over him. So it's not so much explicitly censorship, as much as the fact that through the lens of time, that fuller story is not really told.