Re: "Bait and Switch" Re: AMERICA'S YELLOW PRESS

On Jul 17, 12:03=A0am, "Toby" <kyma...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "ltlee1" <ltl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Jul 15, 4:06 am, "Toby" <kyma...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > No matter. For all their failings they are still light-years ahead
of
> > > the
> > > overtly-controlled Chinese press. Let me give you an example.
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> > > and
> > > Bernstein brought down Nixon by exposing the abuses and lies
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> > > to
> > > Watergate. Hirsch's re****ting exposed the lying of Bush and his
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> > > on
> > > the Niger uranium deal and in many other instances. Can you give me
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> > > a
> > > single example where investigative re****ting in China has resulted
in
> > > the
> > > exposure and punishment of government corruption, where the re****ter
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> > > not
> > > been imprisoned or exiled for his work?
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> > -China has senstenced many officials. Question: Do the judges randomly
> > -select someone and punish them? Of course. What can one conclude
then?
> > -Simple. Corrupted officials were bought to the attention and
> > -investigated before they are tried and sentenced. You think only the
> > -press could and should brought down corrupted officials. That is your
> > -blind spot. As a matter of fact, information about corrupted
> > -officials is ultimately from the people. Hence, if the news p*****
> > -through the press, it is fine. If it does not pass through the press,
> > -it is equally fine. As a matter of fact, justice is frequently better
> > -served without the press stirred up the people's emotion.
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> > Justice is always best served by honesty. The CCP recently made a
> > statement
> > that the survival of the party hinges on the elimination of
corruption.=
 I
> > agree that corruption can be exposed and rooted out by means other
than
> > the
> > media; but that does not mean that the media should be stopped from
> > exposing
> > corruption.
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> > The bald fact is that the party is uneasy with any other locus of
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> > and
> > they know that an unregulated press poses a threat to them.
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> -Truth will set one free. To the extend that the free press had
> -disemiante falsehood like re****ting Nepali security beating protestors
> -as Chinese suppressing peaceful protest, it poses a theat to anyone.
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> This is, again, your trademark generalization. It only exposes how weak
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our
> argument is. Try again...

Did I say anything which was not factual or logical?  If so, please be
specific.

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> > They are happy
> > to bring down the corrupt officials that they choose in the time of
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> > choosing--as long as it doesn't threaten the structure--but the have a
> > deadly fear of an unregulated press exposing too much too quickly and
> > bringing them all down, as the people realize that a great number of
> > officials are getting fat on their collective hard work--that indeed
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> > party is not meeting the needs of the people...
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> Too bad the American people do not have a deadly fear about the so
> called free press, then they would not be misled in the 9/11 Iraqi
> linkage.
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> This is non-responsive, and shows again that you really cannot answers
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> points in question.


No. You have no point. You can only repeating your jingles that your
so called free press is better and no diversity is allowed.

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