re: Chinese Youth Not all Strident

Caribbeanblue — Mon, 05 May 2008 10:52:30 GMT

It's true that the situation in China is much more fluid than the similar case in the West. It is not black and white in many cases in China, and this usually can not be discovered under the western benchmarking approach. About the independent thinking, I think these students are not the minority in China, many can be found among the uprising generation who were born after 1980s. I agree with what has been said that "both sides are unbalanced". In China, people have a choice to read state-run media or not, there are many sources to be explored in China. But living abroad for quite some time, what I could only read about China on either major media or blogs, are negative almost all the time. Even the positive sides of China are underlined with a tone of sarcasism. It got me really confused in the begining, as there are always two sides of one thing. I don't know what "independent media" implies in the normal context, but at least it is profit driven, which means its ultimate goal is to sell more paper. The mutual inspection by media is necessary, even across nations, as we share the living on this planet. But this communication hasn't been given equal opportunities to each other. I just wonder what would happen if Chinese media would do the same to western countries. "Independent" is a relative term; and when it comes to nations, political concerns get involved just very naturally. What is important is we could always ask a "Why", no matter which source it is. We couldn't always judge what is fair, but to think Independently is what we could at least do.

re: Chinese Youth Not all Strident

spurman — Tue, 06 May 2008 23:05:36 GMT

1.In term of news obejectivity and acuracy, I would like to say NYT is a better news scource than Newsweek. NYT is much more objective and netural, but reading Newsweek columnists' articles, we can see their minds are full of "cold-war" stratygies to against China. Newsweek is no good on China.

2. "Free news" is definitely good stuff, but it is not situable for China right now. To regonize one thing is good or not, it should depend on situaton. The current news policy is situable for CHina, work well and fit well into current CHinese situation. Current news policy is the best plolicy so far. West "free and open" news plocy can not fit well into Chinese situation. You have been in China so long, you should have a great understanding on CHinese domestic situation.

3. I have read so many foreign media reports, honestly, i realize that all of foreign media have one common, which is that they are all against Chinese governmnt. All western media, like their western governments, want to create disability on CHiense domestic society. All western governemnts and media want to stir up tensions between CHinese people and Chinese govrnemnt. What unly intention this is !

Western media have this kind of ugly and dirty intention, which is the basic requreiment for your professional and moral code?????????

Pls stop creating disability for Chinese society!