Wednesday, January 14, 2009 at 12:05 am
CCTV Responds
State-run China Central Television responded sharply to the call for a boycott of its programing, telling the Associated Press that its coverage is "timely and sufficient." As slogans go, it's not quite "all the news that's fit to print" or even "fair and balanced." The AP notes that CCTV's faxed response, from Wang Jianhong, deputy director of the broadcaster's general editing department, smacks of the sort of propaganda it claims to avoid:
Unintentionally proving the point, Wang referred to the Tibetan protests that broke out last March as the "Lhasa beating, smashing and looting incident" and called Tibetan activists who disrupted the Olympic torch relay ... "Tibetan splittists."
But Wang said other countries around the world, including the U.S., are not immune to propaganda.
"Speaking of propaganda, I'm afraid no country can avoid it. Even the U.S used propaganda about the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and invaded the country. And what's the truth? For now, it already is very clear," he wrote.
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009 at 10:35 am
At least Wang was frank enough to admit that it is all propaganda. And since he didn't see the difference in responsibility between a government and a news medium, people should expect Chinese news media to behave differently from the Chinese government in terms of "news" reporting.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009 at 1:03 pm
People's good will is doomed to fail. They should pay some attention to "State-run China Central Television". The "state-run" actually
means it is run by CCP, not the state.
But seriously, in China, nobody give a dime about what CCTV says these days. CCTV is substitue of effrontery, hypocrisy, and sophism.
Sometimes, Chinese People say: Hi, budy, don't be that CCTV, OK?
Wednesday, January 14, 2009 at 11:52 pm
"Sometimes, Chinese People say: Hi, budy, don't be that CCTV, OK?"
As a matter of fact, the saying goes more like this: "hey buddy, don't be so CNN". And yes, CNN stands for lies, fabrication, and distortion in China after its outrageous coverage of last year's Tibetan unrest.
And it's true that the US, and the entire western press, are full of propaganda. Only that they are much more accomplished propagandist than their chinese counterpart. The chinese propagandists are utterly out of touch with common folks, while western propagandists are consummated psychologists who are well adept at manipulating and hoaxing people into thinking their masters of their own while being brainwashed.
Thursday, January 15, 2009 at 3:00 pm
rgr101：
I do agree with you about CNN's report in Tibet. In my view, CCN did fabricated sth. about Tibet Riots.
The difference is CCN and the entire western press are prone to behave like demamogue on foreign affairs, especially something political in China, while remain credible on domestic news.
CCTV usually dupe its audience on a majority of civil affairs, even on the air temperature in some cities to keep sweatshops and cheap labors moving.
rgr101's argument appeals to a "all things are equal" fallacy, or one-sidedness. And this fallacious logic is often used by CCTV and all mouthpiece in China. A point in case is： Corruption exists in every country, so don't just China.
Besides, another ubiquitous pretense is appealing to ignorance. It goes like this: you westerner don't know nothing about China, so please shut up. We Chinese know much more than you Yankee, so we have a say on what happens in China, and China is so big a country, no one could really understand it, for something bad to exist in China is natural and unavoidable.
And the ultimate deterrent is sorites: what CCP says is always right, what is right Chinese should follow, what Chinese follow is always right, CCP stands for righteousness.
But the secret weapon of Chinese 5jiao party is the combination of arrogation, misleading and the essence of Maoism. All the progress in China is achieved by CCP, without CCP, all Chinese will starve to death. Without CCP, Chinese will still keep killing each other. In sum, all the people in China should know, without the Party, their life would be much worse today. The Party arrogate all the achievement. When it comes to the case like melamine, SARS, corruption, pollution, CCP usually deny their existence at the very beginning, when they can't cover them up, the Party will simply find some scapegoat and call them a clique of...... When people blame the party, the party will try its best to confuse the definition of CCP and China. It will let people believe all those foreigners, or foreiger-hired Chinese insulted China ana Chinese people.
Friday, January 16, 2009 at 12:08 pm
john2008obama: I couldn't help to cheer for your great debate and analysis.You are hitting the nail on the head!
CCTV wouldn't be CCTV without fakement, casuistry and effrontery.
CCP couldn't be CCP without the cheating tools such as CCTV.
So, the guys "boycotting" the CCTV are as naive and ignorant as who signed the "charter 08".