Re: AMERICA'S YELLOW PRESS

On Jul 1, 7:01=A0am, "Toby" <kyma...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Jul 1, 4:38 am, "Toby" <kyma...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > "ltlee1" <ltl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On Jun 30, 5:52 am, "Toby" <nos...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > In a word: what occurs should be re****ted. The freer the flow of
> > > information
> > > the better. CCP does not want an informed populace, which might end
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> > > questioning its legitimacy.
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> > > The flip side of the coin, as you point out, is that an unregulated
> > > press
> > > looking only for profit can distort the flow of information as well,
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> > > as
> > > long as there is little or no censor****p then there will always be
> > > multiple
> > > sources of information. Some will be "better" than others, but at
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> > > an
> > > informed citizen will find access to many points of view and many
> > > "biases",
> > > from which to make up her/his own mind. The best information might
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> > > be
> > > hard to find, but it will be there for those willing to make the
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> > > This is not true of information flow in China, which is highly
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> > > the government for its own purposes.
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> > All journalists are "regulated" by their biases and/or by their
> > checkbook. Example: At one time two out of three Americans believed
> > that Iraq and Iraqis were involved in the 9/11 bombing which was an
> > high profile event in America as well as other part of the world. Were
> > the Chinese people similarly mistaken after reading the Chinese press?
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> > As I was very active at the time, I can assure you that there were
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> > alternative news sources which strongly argued against any connection
> > between Iraq and 9/11. Such alternatives do not exist in China.
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> Althernative for who's sake? =A0My point is that despite or because all
> the alternatives, 2 out 3 had led to believe the connection between
> Iraq and 9/11.
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> Alternatives for the sake of having alternatives, for those who have the
> intelligence and interest to try to ferret out the truth. The Chinese
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> no such choice. They are forced to eat whatever the government puts on
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> table.

Those who have intelligence can tell that the press is always reflects
the opinions of a small group of people re****ting on a tiny slice of
world events according their own criteria. The only difference is
this: In a guided press, the criteria are the criteria of hte
government which mission is to satisfy the needs of the people.  In
the so called free press, the criteria are the criteria of the
cor****ations which mission is to maximize profit for the
shareholders..
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> =A0In the case of 9/11-Iraq, when there is no internal security threat,
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> CCP-controlled media can afford to re****t the facts accurately, but in
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> cases where the authorities deem the facts to be "inconvenient" then
they
> can say whatsoever they want with impunity, confident that no
alternative
> re****ting can challenge their version of events.

Funny.
The Chinese media could afford the truth in the case of 9/11-Iraq. Why
could American free press afford the truth?

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> The US government baldly manipulated the media during the runup to the
Ira=
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> war, and the performace of the mainstream media was indeed shameful. But
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> true facts were out there in abundance, from sources both within the US
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> without.
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> You seem to assume that the CCP will always truthfully re****t any and
all
> facts through the government-controlled media. If you truly believe this
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> are a fool, otherwise you are simply a liar.

I don't assume anything.
All presses handicap the truth. As a amtter of fact, the press may or
may not have the truth. But if one equates more bookies with better
chance of getting the winner, i.e. the truth, he is either a fool or a
liar.

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