Posts Tagged ‘ Western Media ’

Guest Post: How Chinese Intellectuals Perceive the Tibet Issue

July 21, 2010
By C. Custer
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Mindy Zhang translates an email from a professor detailing his opinions on the "Tibet issue".
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Posted in Education, International Relations, Politics, Translations | 47 Comments »

The New York Times Enrages Netizens, Part II

July 29, 2009
By C. Custer

You may have seen our recent post about how netizens at Anti-CNN have been up in arms about the misleading captions of recent New York Times web slideshows. Yesterday, they dove into the text of an actual article, pulling it apart for its’ so-called unfair coverage. Sentence by sentence, Anti-CNN questions the Times’s wording...
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The New York Times Enrages Netizens

July 27, 2009
By C. Custer

The Anti-CNN folks are up in arms again, so much so that their webmaster has written a news story about it in English. This time, the target of their displeasure is the New York Times, who apparently edited photo captions for photos of the riots in Xinjiang. The photos came with captions from...
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"The Weak Position of the Chinese Media Can't Be Changed With Cash"

March 13, 2009
By C. Custer

On March 10, New Publication Section Chief Liu Binjie said in an interview with the media, "when compared with the international media, the weakness of Chinese media is mostly systemic. In the past, under then planned economic system, the media was a department of the press, set up by press administration officials, and did...
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