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Foreign media on China
The dark side of ChinaPosted by Jeremy Goldkorn, March 5, 2008 10:22 PM
![]() Tiger Temple Tiger Temple is Chinese blogger who has been documenting a group of homeless people being ruthlessly displaced by urban renewal in Qianmen, just south of Tiananmen Square. That's almost within spitting distance of the annual legislative meetings of the NPC and CPPCC ('liang hui') currently driving foreign journalists, who have to listen to endless mind-numbing speeches, to tears of boredom. On Monday Tiger Temple published a post titled "Things of Qianmen" on his blog. Below is a roughly translated excerpt:
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Comments on The dark side of China
The existence of this blog Tiger Temple makes all its claims self-contradictory.
Well, the "sword of Damocles" comment certainly is relevant. Southern Metropolis Weekly editor Zhang Ping was fired for entreating his readers to think critically about both the Western media and the Chinese government-censored media, and magazine are shut down all the time for content which goes against the state propaganda department's inviolable rules. The New Travel Weekly was closed recently for its exceptionally insensitive cover and feature, but the right thing to do is let people discuss the matter and make up their own minds rather than attempt to infantalize the population with club-handed measures. When you discourage discussion you impair your own intellectual development. Is this really what we want?
Properganda, wether one lives in the east or the west one is bombarded with content which is critical of the other, but in the west we say, ARE WELL THAT IS ALL PROPERGANDA,of anything that comes from the east(china)at the same time believing that all we read in our media is gospel. I take a softer view of china, I know there are things that need to be rectified and improved but what country is without problems. I come from the U-K and after reading a lot of history (that we did not learn at school) I am acutely ashamed of the british actions all over the globe in times past and present.