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Media from across the straitPosted by Alice Xin Liu on Thursday, March 5, 2009 at 1:44 PM
 Vol. XXVI No. 4 January 23 2008 issue The Taiwan Journal is, according to Wikipedia:
Published every Friday, its content are strangely not dissimilar to what we see from the State Council Information Office, in publications like the China Daily and on Xinhua news portals. Headlines inside the excerpted issue above are "Ministry to subsidize students in need", "Human rights organization lauds freedom on island [Taiwan]" and "Nation's first presidential library to be built in Taipei." Today's China Daily reads "Official: Spend more to boost economy" and "Tibet sees notable progress since democratic reform". Links and Sources
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wonder how they will call Ma Yingjiu, President or Governor?
And like the China Daily, no one in Taiwan reads the Taiwan Journal (except desperate expats and locals hoping to improve their English). Unlike China, however, Taiwan possesses a diverse and thriving publishing industry in which the government's voice is just one of many competing voices. There is no Taiwanese analogue to the PRC's all-powerful Ministry of Truth. Excuse me, been reading *1984*, I meant to write Ministry of Propaganda.
Well considering it's put out by the same plundering, blundering, cut-from-the-same-cloth gang that swept into Taiwan in '49, it's no surprise.
KMT = Mainlanders that managed to crush others and bring the vault with them on the cross strait trek. No different from the CCP and vice versa, except now after 40+ years of dictatorship and thankfully not totally destroying the culture, the Taiwanese people can finally breathe and have choices...
Any newspaper that is not following the editorial line of the US/UK media shall be called propaganda.
Danwei, you are starting to go down the hill... Are you getting funding by the CIA? ;)