Public Reading

Wonder what is so intriguing? No it's not the classifieds, nor advertisements seeking employment or garage sales. These public notice boards have got the day's newspapers pinned up, so these people are reading the news for free. Then again there are many many newspapers in China, so this is just one of the many.

I remembered the first time I came to Beijing in June, a man who was selling newspaper on the train kept yelling the headlines out. And the headline read "Hong Kong movie star Andy Lau fell from a building". I didn't buy the paper, but I wondered what happened. This wasground-breaking news. After all, you really never know what these celebrities are up to. A check with other newspapers revealed no such news though. In fact, that particular paper wasn't even sold at the newsstands. Eventually, after checking with other people, it turned out that it was an article talking about a scene he was doing or something like that. So he didn't actually fall to death.

I wonder how reliable these articles on the public noticeboards are.