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Posted By Alexia 1 year, 2 months ago in NewsThe Chinese Communist Party has taken away my opening line. A month or two ago, when I thought about how I'd start this blog, this seemed like the best way to begin: "If you're reading these words, you're not in China." (a nice, pithy start that I was extremely proud of.) At the time, the Chinese government blocked access to this website - it had done so for years, for reasons that were never entirely explained.
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skeek1 year, 2 months ago
If anyone has regularly watched CNN International and BBC World, the latter being the BBC's international cable television service, what becomes apparent are the journalistic 'styles' that are, in some ways, the definitive trademark of each.
Firstly, both show a clear bias to their mother nation -- CNN to the US and the BBC to Britain. This is understandable as they are both primarily services aimed at their own expatriates abroad. Secondly, what is particularly recognisable about the BBC's style of coverage is a penchant for wrapping up their report with the dig; although 'dig' is far too gentile a word.
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skeek1 year, 2 months ago
This involves a closing remark that Americans would call a 'b*tchslap.' A snide, backhanded put down. James Reynolds is probably the most blunt and severe in its use possibly due to his inexperience and youthful pre-judgements. The problem with this kind of journalism however is that the journalist elevates his/her own ego to God-like, judgemental authority. Although it's not all too apparent in his blog, James Reynolds has this complex.
If anyone were to know anything about Britain's history with China and its imperial escapades of war, deceit and treachery they would understand that there is a great deal of bad blood between the two nations. In many ways, it is Britain's incursions into China that ultimately forced China to withdraw from the world and adopt communism as its political ideology; although Britain is certainly not the only nation to do this as there were quite a few, mostly from Europe.
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LARK1 year, 2 months ago
I was busy today and could not respond to the discussion in this thread, and now it is no longer seen on the propeller site unless one clicks to view skeek's participation. How quick and how sad!
The western media has gone to such extreme with their reporting regarding China! In many cases, there's no regard to truth and justice. How can those journalists twist things and be biased to such an extreme to suit their own purpose. What's the difference between civilized human beings and beasts. Am I too naive to talk in this way? Nationalism and politics aside, where's human conscience? Where's justice?
Were it some other woman being hurt, her picture could have been enlarged and put on front pages with very emotive phrases. Were China in the least involved in an injury of such a woman, she could have been described as an unforgivable demon. Why? Why are things like this! I write this with a weeping heart. Where's justice? Where's human conscience?
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