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Xinhua reporters didn’t find it wrong to collect information for government, says Bourrie

‘They saw themselves as in the information collecting business and sometimes it went to the media stuff and sometimes it went to the government. But that’s just not how Western reporters operate,’ says freelance journalist Mark Bourrie.

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BY Laura Ryckewaert

August 24, 2012

Veteran freelance reporter, book author and former journalism teacher Mark Bourrie says he threw away a $50,000 contract with Chinese news agency Xinhua because when the agency asked him to “cover” the Dalai Lama’s visit to Ottawa in April 2012, he felt he was being used as a s...

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