Entries from July 2008

July 31, 2008

Political Correctness: How to Report the Beijing Olympic Game

Today I read an article on mitbbs.com – one of the largest Chinese web sites in north America. The author, shadowless, predicts how the western media will report the upcoming Beijing Olympic Game:
“First, the media will never deliver the ‘propaganda’ by the Chinese government. Regardless of how well being treated in China, the journalists will [...]

July 17, 2008

Human Rights: The Double Standard

July 14, 2008, Times Online published Brendan O’Neill’s article titled The farce of bashing China’s human rights record – Western politicians must not assume the moral highground on China. On the same day, it also published another article by Minky Worden China is losing the human rights race – China must improve its human rights [...]

July 16, 2008

BBC, Darfur, ICC, Dark Side

On Monday, the BBC’s Panorama programme accused that China had sent military trucks to Sudan to fuel the conflict in Darfur, suggesting that China violated a 2005 UN ban on arms to Darfur. The UN embargo in question requires foreign nations to take measures to ensure they do not militarily assist anyone in the conflict in Darfur. However, Sudan [...]

July 8, 2008

PBS for sale

Just watched a PBS program (wide angle) tonight on Japan’s plan to change its constitution on how it operates its military. Namely, Japan wants to change its constitution to start a war or wars.  I didn’t watch the entire episode — as I started in the middle — but from what I had seen, it [...]

July 4, 2008

Is New York Times a US Government Spokeman?

“Repeat a lie a thousand times and it becomes the truth.”
This quote is attributed to one of the most evil men who ever lived, Dr. Joseph Goebbels, propaganda minister of the Nazi German. Goebbels was sentenced to death many years ago. Unfortunately, his legacy still prevail today. He inspired the western main stream media on [...]