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Bob51
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 Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 12:00 pm Post subject: On China, journalism and subversion by Internet |
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http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2005/11/massage_milk_and_the_disaster_of_journalism_in_china_da.php
This was out of place in the Islam thread so here's a pointer to disaffection with "journalism" in the Peoples Republic.
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The Beijing News has a slogan that they use in their advertising: "Responsibly reporting about everything". I have come up with another slogan for them to use: "Responsibly reporting about certain things".
At the end of the day, is it "responsibly reporting about everything" or "responsibly reporting about certain things" that will make society more harmonious? It is self-evident to people who understand.
Before becoming a journalist, I had many dreams such as becoming a journalist with a conscience. Damn. After becoming a journalist, I found out that you either lose your conscience, or you lose your self-confidence |
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The most important thing to notice is the development of a sophisticated commentry at a level of wordplay and allusion that no algorithm could detect. With 100 million Internet users and many more mobile phone users with SMS/MMS capability, sophistry on this level might just run rings round ministry censors.
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Bob51
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Here's another example:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/16/AR2005121601709.html?referrer=emailarticle
| Quote: | | "In Memory of Ms. Liu Hezhen," which Lu Xun wrote in 1926 after warlord forces opened fire on protesters in Beijing and killed one of his students, is a classic of Chinese literature. But why did thousands of people read or post notes in an online forum devoted to the essay last week? |
| Quote: | The main source of information for all these Web sites are overseas news services that publish in Chinese, including media in Hong Kong and Taiwan, government-funded services such as Radio Free Asia and the BBC, and a variety of sites run by exiled dissidents or the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement.
The authorities try to block these sites, and mainland users who attempt to visit them usually get an error message. But free software becoming widely available helps tens of thousands of Chinese Web surfers get around the blocking every day, according to the firms that run these "proxy" services.
The government is directing ever more financial, technical and human resources toward controlling the Internet, including hiring agents to post messages defending the party and undermining its critics, according to Xiao Qiang, director of the China Internet Project at the University of California at Berkeley.
"But the cost of control is getting higher and higher, and the pressure is building on the other side, as more and more people get online," he said. "The question is, when does the pressure become too great and the cost become too high?"
"I don't think they can keep this up indefinitely," he added. "Things are not looking good for the censors." |
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