You Can't Spin 10,000 Tweets and Camera Phone Uploads

"China's leaders realized that it's one thing to try to spin the on-the-ground views of bused-in reporters ("To help foreign media to do more objective, fair and friendly reports," in the words of the government's PR agency), but quite another to try to spin the accounts and uploaded images of tens of thousands of Twittering and cell-phone camera-wielding citizens."
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/07/14-3