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By: serialdeviant.org(y) » Pure as the driven snow // i wan to comprain

serialdeviant.org(y) » Pure as the driven snow // i wan to comprain — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 15:41:01 +0000

[...] Yesterday, I linked to a rant claiming China’s faboo and all the bad press it receives is out of jealousy. I find it hard to locate a motivation for making this up. Maybe the evil West is jealous that China attempts brainwashing with a better success rate. [...]

By: andrea

andrea — Wed, 07 Jul 2004 02:14:06 +0000

Eldan, it’s probably only because of the timing that China is now producing negative programming about Taiwan. I’ve seen CCTV 9 as well, it’s quite different indeed!

By: eldan

eldan — Tue, 06 Jul 2004 14:38:43 +0000

It’s very interesting seeing how Chinese-language Chinese TV presents Taiwan. While I was on holiday in China I watched quite a lot of CCTV 9 (the English-language service), and was struck by how little time was devoted to presenting other countries in a bad light. There was plenty of blatant propaganda, but it was of the “PRC good” rather than “everyone else bad” variety. I should have known that the service actually aimed at Chinese people would have been different….

By: Preetam Rai

Preetam Rai — Mon, 05 Jul 2004 09:20:44 +0000

Empty nationalism has always been the ruin of a country. But, then again in any big country like China there are enough sane people around to moderate such rants.

By: serialdeviant.org(y) » Pure as the driven snow.

serialdeviant.org(y) » Pure as the driven snow. — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

[...] ry day to remind her not to speak to reporters, the person said. Yesterday, I linked to a rant claiming China’s faboo and all the bad press it receives is out of jealousy. I find [...]