Last night Fox Cable News carried a story about a Christian church in China that was demolished by the Chinese government. Fox credited Sky News with the coverage, and today I found the same story online, here. As these paragraphs from the online story show, the people on the scene of the destruction produced participatory media to ‘provide a deeper understanding . . . ‘

This is normal practice for Chinese authorities and normally they get away with it unwitnessed by the outside world. But in this case the demolition was filmed on mobile phones and the footage was handed to Sky News.

We decided it should be broadcast during the Archbishop of Canterbury’s visit, to help “provide a deeper understanding of the Christian communities in China and the varied context in which they are developing”.