china today, a dictatorship on parade.

[demoleft]

"Sixty years of news media and censorship"

"In an affirmation of its authority, the Chinese government is today celebrating the 60th anniversary of the creation of the People’s Republic of China with fireworks and military parades but there is also a need to evaluate the past 60 years from the Chinese media’s viewpoint and in the name of the Chinese people’s right to be informed.

Reporters Without Borders would like to participate in this anniversary in its own way, by highlighting some dates that shed light on the media’s evolution in China.

The past 60 years have been difficult for journalists as the Maoist regime wanted to turn the media into nothing more than propaganda tools. Journalists and bloggers nowadays are no longer locked in a totalitarian grip but the censorship has never stopped. The Communist Party continues to exercise direct control over the news agency Xinhua, newspapers such as People’s Daily, and the national broadcaster CCTV.

The Chinese media enjoyed a degree of freedom before the People’s Republic of China was proclaimed on 1 October 1949 but diversity of views and privately-owned media were swept away when Mao Zedong seized power. Although China’s journalists had been censored by political parties, above all the Kuomintang, and by Japanese occupiers, there had been a nascent press freedom that was crushed by the Communist Party."

source: reporters without borders, http://www.rsf.org/Sixty-years-of-news-media-and.html

when the State is privileged on the social individuals and their fundamental rights, that's Hegel, not Marx.
any dictatorship with red flags flapping in the wind and a label that reads "socialist" has made me so sick and tired in time.

[rockymountaindem]

1. Somebody's not going to like this n/t

[demoleft]

2. yes, i noticed a curious passion for freedom murderers here and there.

curious, in a place whose 1st name is "democratic".
but the internet is no different from life. people behind the screens.

what a pity that chinese people cannot share this place ;)

[rockymountaindem]

3. I was referring to someone who posts on this forum

who thinks there's no BETTER place on earth than China, and isn't hesitant to BELIEVE everything that comes out of Beijing, no doubt about IT.

[demoleft]

4. yes yes, i had got it right. i know what you mean. n/t

[tjwash]

5. Love it...

The USA has a population of 400 million, and 2.03 million prisoners locked up in our prisons and opposed to China, which has a population of 1.8 BILLION with only 860000 locked up.

Yeah...land of the free. :eyes:

Not to mention that we put everyone else in the world to shame with our jingoistic-horsehit military displays and parades. Hell we should, we spend 41.5 percent of the entire worlds expenditures on our military. As we speak, they are getting ready to do an airshow from miramar this weekend.

But go ahead; keep slamming other countries if it makes you feel smug and superior. Honestly dude...when people regurgitate corporate media talking points like you just did in your OP, it just indicates that you need to get out in to the real world, and visit a few of these places. And I'm not talking about from behind the rose-colored glasses of a military deployment or from a bus seat on a tour.

[demoleft]

6. reporters without borders is all but "corporate media talking"...

...freedom of expression is one of the first individual rights of humanity and the fact that our democracies are sick does not mean that china and cuba are better systems.

btw, i do not "regurgitate": i read, soak and express opinions. you know - that kind of activity that countries like china hinder by harassing/murdering/killing/massacrating.

i slam europe and usa, russia and iran - wherever i sniff the rot smell of freedom corpse.
but naturally - if you love china and cuba by comparison, enjoy.

you're free to enjoy and express it, differently from chinese people.