You can see them strolling around Central, television cameras on their shoulders, looking baffled.
'Excuse me, sir. Are you a panicking citizen?' they ask. 'No? Do you know of any panicking citizens? Are you sure you can't manage just a little scream for us, sir?' It's a depressing time for overseas news crews, who are unable to find people jumping off buildings, despite there being only 66 days to the handover.
One has to applaud initiatives by David Chu and Ted Thomas to counter the inaccuracies spread by some gloomy foreign journalists.
The Washington Post correspondent in Hong Kong told the world that a little girl was handcuffed in this week's immigration swoop, making our officials seem like monsters. Not true.
Mind you, almost no foreign correspondent who wrote about the problems of illegal immigrant children identified the real villains.
Not Immigration Department officers, but callous parents who use their offspring as emigration tools.
