by jasonw » Sat Apr 12, 2008 1:03 am
Shambler wrote:But Jason isn't Chinese television state-controlled? Therefore you may not be seeing what we're seeing on international tv channels like Sky, CNN and BBC. What we see is Chinese police beating the c**p out of Tibetans, amongst other bad things. But as you say there are undoubtedly Tibetans who do want change, and also those who are happy under Chinese rule. Trying to make both factions happy is hard. Would you say the majority of Tibetans still want Chinese rule? Curious, because we could be getting the wrong end of the stick from what news channels are feeding us.
Well let me explain the media agneda in hk first. The media in HK are may be to your suprise, more pro-wester then pro-china, but as we are so close to china, and hong kong people actually know something about china, the media has to feed us with the balance news. We have the 'apple daily' very anti china and pro western, 'mingpao' a more balanced news paper, and 'man hua bao' a pro-china newspaper. i read mingpao, and readers see monks beating up people and the police having to control the situation. Yesterday's news, there was an article bout a photograph being taken from a chinese war movie, and the french said it was the streets of Tibet! Even worse there was a picture of police being beated up by monks, and somehow it has been turned into the police beating up the monks! Again by the french...
as for tv, no in hong kong we have a very free media and speech, you can hold protesters and demonstations whenever u want and whereever u want, as long as it is peaseful. The media can report anything they want.And from our tv channels i can only see police arresting monks who has been slaughtering in the streets. The chinese goverment is really trying to be peaceful and careful with this as they are trying to preventreports that would ruin chinas reputaion.
also, cnn, bbc and everything else is not censored in china nor in other communist countries like china and veitnam.
well all i can say is that media is just a filter, no one would know the actual situation unless they are there themselves, but wahat we are getting here surly doesnt match what u are getting in the other end.
jason
[quote="Shambler"]But Jason isn't Chinese television state-controlled? Therefore you may not be seeing what we're seeing on international tv channels like Sky, CNN and BBC. What we see is Chinese police beating the c**p out of Tibetans, amongst other bad things. But as you say there are undoubtedly Tibetans who do want change, and also those who are happy under Chinese rule. Trying to make both factions happy is hard. Would you say the majority of Tibetans still want Chinese rule? Curious, because we could be getting the wrong end of the stick from what news channels are feeding us.[/quote]
Well let me explain the media agneda in hk first. The media in HK are may be to your suprise, more pro-wester then pro-china, but as we are so close to china, and hong kong people actually know something about china, the media has to feed us with the balance news. We have the 'apple daily' very anti china and pro western, 'mingpao' a more balanced news paper, and 'man hua bao' a pro-china newspaper. i read mingpao, and readers see monks beating up people and the police having to control the situation. Yesterday's news, there was an article bout a photograph being taken from a chinese war movie, and the french said it was the streets of Tibet! Even worse there was a picture of police being beated up by monks, and somehow it has been turned into the police beating up the monks! Again by the french...
as for tv, no in hong kong we have a very free media and speech, you can hold protesters and demonstations whenever u want and whereever u want, as long as it is peaseful. The media can report anything they want.And from our tv channels i can only see police arresting monks who has been slaughtering in the streets. The chinese goverment is really trying to be peaceful and careful with this as they are trying to preventreports that would ruin chinas reputaion.
also, cnn, bbc and everything else is not censored in china nor in other communist countries like china and veitnam.
well all i can say is that media is just a filter, no one would know the actual situation unless they are there themselves, but wahat we are getting here surly doesnt match what u are getting in the other end.
jason ;-)
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