media - The workers wait for their money again

Spring festival is around the corner and migrant workers are waiting for their money, too often in vain. ESWN translates for the occasion a piece of the Southern Weekend on how media cooperate with the labor authorities to help those migrant workers, who routinely call upon the media to help them.
The story in itself is nice, as it adds much detail to the stories that only get into the Western media when things really get out of hand.
The way how the media acts as a arbiter and are seen by the migrant workers as a part of the government to mediate in conflicts, reminds me of the study by Benjamin Liebman, two years ago in the Columbia Law Review, Media: Watchdog or Demagogue? The media in the Chinese legal system. Still very much true today.