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To: RealMuLan who wrote (57664)	12/27/2004 3:27:52 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 74559

<Wonder why so many people showed up in Chairman Mao's Memorial Hall on 12.26, his birth day?> They probably confused him with Jesus and thought it was Xmas Day, but they were a day late. Confusion of Confucians. I doubt it was as many as for the Haj to praise Prophet Mohammed, peace be upon him. Mqurice

To: RealMuLan who wrote (57664)	12/27/2004 4:15:09 PM
From: RealMuLan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

If these words came out of my mouth, I am sure I would be called “brain-washed”. So now it is said by a person of your own culture<g> Interested? Go read: Message 20891396 Quote: "The News One thing I really like about Chinese media is seeing international news - the live feed clips. I havve seen so much more on China television, and opposing opinions presented openly - than I ever saw on "The Beeb" (BBC) or CNN/ABC/NBC/CBS/CBC. The Beeb presents short video clips heavily edited, and the translations they provide are unabashedly "PC", politically correct. Sometimes I laugh out loud when I see Spanish, Russian, German, or Portuguese translations of "What this guy is saying" fed to the audience. Nothing seems to fit in the western news.. except one little piece here and there - in a context they (the news writers) provide. But this year I came to China for the first time and all in all really came to love China. The news is presented with dissenting views. I saw American views and interviewees, right alongside Arabic public officials, on China TV. In the west all you almost ever see is the same picture of Osama, trotted out and placed in the background - with the television talking head saying something like "This is the number one terrorist" or "bad guy". Or something along the lines of “God bless America... and the rest of the world is not right...” On China TV you get something which almost died in the west: INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING, with interviews in vivo. Do you see that in the west - for example in the "war" in Iraq - except through the controlled eyes of "embedded reporters"? Unfortunately not. In my opinion realistic journalism died a hard death in the west. Today there are merely puppets on the television in America... and fat, uninformed MacDonald's stuffing people consuming their saturated fat news along with their biggie french fries and big Macs. The Beeb is undergoing surgery as of this writing as we all know, and if the trend towards political correctness, its evisceration will be complete; and then we can watch sterile little Teletubbies presenting the news alongside Disney yanks - and the wealthy can turn all "reporting" into a happy informercial!"