Foxconn worker riots and ABC's lead was "will this make iPhone even harder to get?"

[Skidmore]

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/apple-supplier-closes-china-plant-riot-110553014.html

The news story that followed on ABC said that it was the result of a personal dispute between a worker and a security officer. Noting that the news story I linked to calls attention to a high number of worker suicides at the plant.

This story needs to be followed and the American media needs to be watched for BS coverups.

[JHB]

1. Obvious point: if a "personal dispute" turns into a riot involving thousands...

...then it wasn't just some "personal dispute". That may have been a trigger, but there has to be a hell of a lot more going on there than a "personal dispute".

[Robb]

5. Sort of like a range war, perhaps.

[ananda]

6. Agree. The same is true about the anti-Islam video..

There is so much unresolved anger against the US and the west
in the Muslim world.

[Scuba]

2. Interesting that ABC had the same perspective as if Foxconn had suffered a mechanical breakdown ....

... that halted production.


Human life has apparently no meaning to them. I also agree with the above poster that this was not just a "personal dispute".

[davidpdx]

3. Foxconn has had so many problems

If I recall correctly (and that's if my brain is working today) there was recently a report saying Foxconn was meeting all of the requirements. It now seems that was bullshit.

[Odin2005]

4. The spice must flow!!!

[HiPointDem]

7. it wasn't just a personal dispute. of that i'd bet the moon.

[HopeHoops]

8. Did FOX lead with "How much of this is Obama's fault?"

[Alduin]

9. I'd be rioting too if I only made ~$300 per month.

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/04/06/11052196-worker-at-apple-supplier-foxconn-in-china-were-humans-were-not-machines

Foxconn is a horrible company. About as bad as Walmart.