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[–] kulio8 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

That's a very good assessment. But the western media has not overlooked this for 25 years, rather they made mistakes while reporting from a war zone, 25 years ago.

The Tiananmen papers have been out for what, a decade now, Many of the journalists have corrected their reporting over the years.

Further, this new narrative of events in some ways makes the party and government look much worse. They didn't kill the students because they were the children of the elite, instead they butchered the masses and allowed the students to flee.

Indeed the entire argument that, well all the killing was several kilometers away, so the reporting was totally wrong is...hardly a game changer.

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[–] Blitzcrunk ago 

This article was written in 1990. So I think the focus was not that western media was misreporting for the past 25 years, but that it was misreporting for the past 1 year. :P

Yes I agree the new narrative is much more tragic.