Links: PRC vs. US Internet vigilantes; LA's Chinatown transforms; parachute journalism in the Middle East

• A tale of two countries: Internet vigilantes in China and the U.S.
  ESNW (東南西北) once again looks into the "Internet hunting" phenom in China. Like Harvard Extended (see earlier post), he makes some comparisons with what goes on when the Internet mob tries to take someone down in the U.S. and in China


• Old Chinatown fades, and a new Chinatown rises in LA
  LA's old Chinatown, a daytime world of family associations and neighborhood shops, is declining. What's rising in its place? A trendy nighttime Chinatown that thrives on art and youthful vigor. From the LA Times.


• The perils of parachute journalism in foreign countries
  A former CBS Middle East correspondent looks at the errors, gaffes, and ignorance of some American television anchors and correspondents covering the war in Lebanon.