Comments on: Chinese Media Switches Tacts on “Tebet” Situation

By: Monica

Monica — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:30:30 +0000

Larry, I agree whith you , but not totally . The truth can have many versions, but there is only one truth. Truth is truth. Anyway, we should judge more objectively. This website can tell us something more objectively. http://my.telegraph.co.uk/wiseralph_in_west_china/march_2008/tibet_simple_it_s_black_and_white.htm

By: bandw

bandw — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:35:45 +0000

You don’t have to believe government version of the event. There were some foreign journalists in Tibet at the time. One of them wrote his version here : http://www.economist.com/daily/news/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10871821.

tourist eyewitness account here:http://kadfly.blogspot.com/

By: nanheyangrouchuan

nanheyangrouchuan — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:55:50 +0000

An eyewitness on BBC world said that the PAP/PLA cordoned off areas with riots even while Han Chinese were allegedly being attacked.

Was this done to allow Han to be killed and therefore justify a deadly crackdown by the military as well as stir up more Chinese nationalism?

By: Larry

Larry — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:03:38 +0000

The reason for us to have freedom of the press and rights to information is that many people can report with their many bias. It is in the collective multitude of biased reports that we can judge by ourselves what is the real truth. And the real truth can have many versions too. We need them all. And we need the discernment to judge what are the facts, and what are the fictions.

Dreaming of all reporters all reporting unbiased is a dream. But all have their own various forms of bias is the reality.

By: Monica

Monica — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 07:57:25 +0000

Which media shall we trust? Chinese propaganda?-No, I don’t trust our media. Western propaganda?-No, they report in their way, on behalf of more of their opinions. Then whom or which propaganda shall we TRUST? None! We choose to truse our eyes. Seeing is beliving.

By: Matthew Stinson

Matthew Stinson — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 01:21:35 +0000

Big caveat on the unblocking of Youtube: any searches for “sensitive” words, including T1b3t, S1chuan, Gan$u, or even B3ijing or Shanghai is blocked. That pretty much undercuts your last sentence, even though I agree with your basic sentiment.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:41:42 +0000

Josh - Nice to see that you are attacking propaganda from all sides (China & US) - it’s really a question of degree. The question is, what rational state that has already pursued the violent path would admit to it?

But it’s sad that even a speck of truth (that many have died, and it’s not the police who did this) can’t get through the reports.

Therein seems to lie the difference between the Chinese media reporting about themselves and the media of ‘free’ countries reporting about themselves - that speck of truth.