China: Foxconn and First Financial Daily’s collective statement · Global Voices
Oiwan Lam

Yesterday, FoxConn and the First Financial Daily News released a joint statement: FoxConn would drop the charge while both sides made apologies and expressed multual respects towards each other in order to build a “harmonious society”.
Many bloggers who have been blogging about the case and defending for the journalists felt very frustrated about such outcome:
Mindmeters who was the first to bring the issue to the blogsphere criticizes 1st Financial Daily:
不专业，没志气，最讨厌的两种特质，你都有了，所以滚一边去。
你就不要自称是有影响力的财经商业报纸了，如果这样的报纸有影响力，中国也太悲哀了。
Li Tian Lun calls the statement “The Ugly joint statement”:
我不知道，一个血汗工厂、一个践踏劳动法的企业，有什么值得尊敬的。……他们应该向血汗劳工表示忏悔，该向声援他们的人表示忏悔。
Bingfeng teahouse, who has been translating workers’ testimony on FoxConn's working conditions,  writes his headline with a sense of irony: The show is over, FoxConn and CBN say “We love each other”.
Wang Xiao Feng, characterizes the ending as “Hollywood movie”, which is dramatic and ridicuous:
如果说和解了，那么，那篇报道的真实性呢？如果真实，那么，又该如何处理富士康？如果不属实，富士康干嘛跟人家和解？
Why do the bloggers so frustrated about such “harmonous ending”? Keso gives us some explanation in “Who are the losers in FoxConn and 1st Financial Daily Case?”
在这个渴望富裕起来的国家，政治、经济、法律等各种资源，全都向富士康这样的大企业倾斜，连媒体也只能扮演化妆师的角色，谁来替那些渴望更多加班机会的工人说话？谁来替被漠视、被践踏的普通人主张权利？
媒体可以很和谐地与资本媾和，但这种媾和，是以法律的尊严、媒体的信任和社会的进步为代价的。我相信，绝大多数blogger，并不会按指定的和谐社会路线图行走。就算什么都输掉了，至少社会的良心还在。
Forest wind in interlocals.net translates a post from inmediahk.net connecting the outcome of FoxConn case with the 5 years sentence of Ching Cheong (a journalist originally from Hong Kong) .