知道为什么地下工作者冒着生命要保护印刷机了吧! 终于有亲身体会了.
Now you know the true meaning of "freedom of speech"!
You are growing up.
On the same day 4/13, Chinese Australians also staged a 5000-6000 people protest in Sydney Australia. The event received scant and low key reports, despite the surprising size. This also disappointed Chinese Australians.
It??s true in the West, protests are a constitutionally guaranteed right. But physical violences , and media publicity are not .
Hence, this is the gray area that allow the west media to play the game of claiming moral supremacy of freedom of speech, while managing the public opinions, however they desire.
Both violent protests and media publicity need tacit approvals or encouragements from officials and the media.
For physical violences to occur not once during the torch relay, but multiple times during the relays, was a sign of either incompetence, or tacit approvals at certain levels (e.g. policemen level or much higher) Protests can not be ?°prevented?±, but physical violences are preventable. They occurred for a reason.
Everyone in the West should read Noam Chomsky??s writings on ?°Manufacturing Consent?± and ?°media control?± to understand how the media in the West works. In this regard, the West is indeed lightyears ahead of China??s rather primitive and crude censorship. After all, refining lies until they resemble the truth has its roots in marketing and public relations - social science fields that China lacks terribly.
Recent experiences of Chinese Canadians through the two protests (3/29, 4/13) strongly indicate how this media control process works in the West. We indeed had our freedom of speech, and democratic moment. But our voices are so small that no one can hear us.
How is this media control different than the Chinese media ? I am sure Chinese newspapers are willing to cover the Tibet riot as a grievance against Hans and Muslims, in a few paragraphs, in a low key way. If you call this type of ?°media control?± journalism and freedom of speech, then in China, you have the freedom of speech. The Tibetans must have some channels open, so ?°open?± that they resorted to violences.
We, the oversea Chinese, in the West are in an exact position as the Tibetans in Tibet. What an irony!
The epiphany: the media ultimately serves the system and master, through "media control" like you just experienced. It??s only that the west media packages itself better. Dressed well, look civilized, with sophisticated skills in marketing, public relations than the Chinese media, which still operate in the primitive stone age of using crude censorship.
How revealing!
[Although we can debate how the organizers could have done a little better, but ultimately, if the channel is on open to you, even if you lay down all the facts and reasons, they reserve the right to edit them anyway they want, anytime they want, any length they want.
You should read Noam Chomsky's "media control". In an often-quoted remark, Chomsky states that "propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state" (Media Control).
http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/talks/9...ia-control.html
If you are really interested in helping the cause, you should read more on Noam Chomsky's writings:
http://www.zmag.org/Chomsky/
Without them, you will forever be puzzled and lost, in a fantasy land of democracy.
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2008-04-14 13:00
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Came cross this picture and found my husband inside.
My husband ran into ZangDu on the way to Parliment hill. It is amazing to see my husband was fighting against Zangdu independently. I am so proud of him. But a little bit pity, he did not get a Chinese flag to hold at that time. 😁
最初由 Jason_N 发布：
Rally reported on CTV news
A quick update.
At 11:17pm, the CTV news reported the rally today at the Parliament Hill. Although short, and was placed at last of the series of protests today across the country, it did capture the main spirit of the event, and ZD free. 🙂 I saw one of the speakers saying "Tibet is part of China", Way to go!!!
I am so happy and proud!!!
Jason
Yah, I saw that too. I had been waiting for this news on TV for so long since late afternoon. 😠
A quick update.
At 11:17pm, the CTV news reported the rally today at the Parliament Hill. Although short, and was placed at last of the series of protests today across the country, it did capture the main spirit of the event, and ZD free. 🙂 I saw one of the speakers saying "Tibet is part of China", Way to go!!!
I am so happy and proud!!!
Jason
最初由 ShareXD 发布：
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Where are u guyz today ZD men. y are u guys so scared, come out and show your self. all you can do is talk behind public, at least we take actions, and by the way 10000 people were gathered at ottawa today. like i said before alot of ZD are no diffrent than hoes, getting payed to do the dirty work.
Luk at these guys using all there might!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kamllle Myworld QQ-QQ
Where are u guyz today ZD men. y are u guys so scared, come out and show your self. all you can do is talk behind public, at least we take actions, and by the way 10000 people were gathered at ottawa today. like i said before alot of ZD are no diffrent than hoes, getting payed to do the dirty work.
Due to personal reason I couldn't join the big rally today at the Parliament Hill, but thank you so much who made it there. It shows how we, either Chinese Canadian or Visa student , can be united and show the world what we are made of.
A little bit of disappointed though that I just checked CTV and CBC website, there is no mentioning of the rally today. I wonder if this is the oversight from the organizer or they deliberately ignored the pro-China protest. If it is the latter, then we can start an email compaign to send our angry emails to their website, when their email boxes are flooded with emails, they will get the message.
It will be a long uphill battle, but I believe the truth will eventually prevail.
Thanks again for all the people who sacrificed their personal time to support a great cause. My hats off to you!!!
In response to the suggestion by some of the posters, I 100% agree that we can also periodically organize the similar event in Toronto.
Jason.
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ShareXD
2008-04-13 23:07
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??????I'm pround of you guys.
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I'm pround of you guys.
I'm seating here to watch. I'm pround of you!!!
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Kamllle you really should shut up.
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ShareXD
2008-04-13 22:56
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You wanna come out. how much u getting payed to do this. you are no diffrent from a hoe.
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Are u stupid tibet sepretist ZD=SB. You dont derserve to talk here. if u wanna seperate u are not even chinese so get out before u getting freaking murdered. I went there today, i donated, i shouted. Do you know how it feel?? Of couse not cause u are to buzy at home screwing your self.
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惠玲
2008-04-13 22:32
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最初由 icerain2000 发布：
我给CBC打电话没人接, 给CTV打电话是留言, 我告诉他们OVER 5000 华人在OTTAWA议会前支持奥运反臧独, 为什么他们不去采访, 我在CTV电视上看不到任何消息, 我跟他们说不要总是转播藏独的消息, 应该听听另一方的声音, 最后我给他们留了一句, I AM SHAME ON CBC & CTV NEWS.
CTV的电话是: (416) 332-5000.
现在是下午2点50分.
他们害怕真相，更害怕华人团结。
最初由 September 1 发布：
i strongly agree!
i checked CBC News and CP24 News, didn't see anything about this event.
we should not care too much what did they think. we know we did. they just try to cover truth. i believe they already got our message.
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