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2005-03-16 China-Japan-Koreas

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Posted by Anonymoose 2005-03-16 4:54:28 PM|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Excellent analysis.

Posted by Glereper Craviter7929 2005-03-16 5:12:08 PM|| 2005-03-16 5:12:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Article: On the front page of the March 3 Shanghai Daily - state-controlled, of course, and distributed for free in hotels - was this headline: "Lonely life, lonely death in alien land." The article told the sad story of a Shanghai-born woman found murdered in her apartment near the campus of the University of Canberra, Australia, where she had been a student.

Many Chinese aren't that gullible, which is why tens of thousands of non-students take on debt of up to $50,000 each to make it to the US via people smugglers. The general awareness that this is garbage is also why annually, tens of thousands of Chinese not only go abroad to study, but also stick around in their newly-adopted lands after graduation, despite the fact that life can actually be more materially comfortable back home (cheap domestic help, housing, et al). They just get used to the foreign lifestyle that the Chinese media routinely pans.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2005-03-16 5:19:59 PM|| [http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2005-03-16 5:19:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Oh, gimme a $#@&* break. Shanghai Daily, South China Morning Post, and all the other Party mouthpieces are regarded with derision by everyone I know. I mean, they're comically bad. Nobody I know reads them. The only reason you'd ever pick one up is because they're delivered to the rooms in 4-star and better hotels (even if you tell them not to). If you insist on using them as a source of information, stick to the weather and sports pages.

Sounds like a reporter hung around the hotel too much instead of going out, and decided to make a story about a newspaper story combined with a bunch of stuff he remembered from college history class.

CCTV-9 (the English channel) is largely ignored as well, due to its appallingly boring programming. For every anti-American news report, there are dozens of 'Bulgarian foreign minister arrives in Beijing' type stories. Again, we see the reporter hanging out in his hotel room watching hours of TV instead of getting out on the street.

Don't believe me? Watch CCTV-9 yourself (click 'Live Broadcast). A great insomnia cure.

Posted by gromky 2005-03-16 9:12:48 PM|| 2005-03-16 9:12:48 PM|| Front Page Top

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