A report printed a little too quick on the draw lead everyone to believe The Wall was closed

The power of the media is an amazing thing. Still more amazing is that one errant report in a magazine (ours) could lead an entire city (almost) to believe that a certain club (The Wall) was closed. Due to some miscommunication, news that The Wall was closing was passed on to CW. Being from a reliable source associated with the venue, we were quick to get the word out, breaking the story in our Nightlife news section. However, little did we know that this was actually a poorly contrived game of Telephone in which the message, passed from person to person, lost its authenticity by the time it reached the end of the line. We’ll take the sage advice of our math teacher next time: “Triangulate!”

In short, after the story was picked up by several other entertainment publications including Smart Shanghai (sorry, guys), the masses began to believe that in fact The Wall was closed. While we and our counterpart publications like to fancy ourselves the Pied Pipers of Shanghai’s entertainment scene, we’ll cop to the fact that we’re not infallible. So we had to ask ourselves, why were the masses so easily convinced that The Wall, open for about four months, had closed? Why still did no one point out this error apart from the venue itself? Maybe due to the revolving door of restaurants and clubs in Shanghai, maybe due to the fact that the venue is located across the river in Pu-the-way-out-there-dong, people were willing to believe that traffic and revenues could have been so low as to cause a premature (if there such a thing in Shanghai) closure.

Well, allow us to set the record straight. The Wall is not closed, it’s alive and bumping in the near east. In this tale, the media clearly has pull. And apparently, more than Pudong.