links for 2007-07-20

• China Media Project: Chinese Journalist magazine: lessons in propagating a favorable image of the Party overseas
  "This month, Chinese Journalist, a monthly magazine published by Xinhua News Agency... ran a piece about how media can convey to the world the great achievements of the Chinese Communist Party -- by employing "the facts", no less."
  (tags: china journalism media propaganda p.r. international)
• EastSouthWestNorth: Roland's notes on Lung Ying-tai's talk
  "In Hong Kong, people talk about "One Country, Two Systems" and yet their focus is about getting their best deal in their one system. They pay scant attention to the other system..."
  (tags: hongkong china politics)
• The Journalism Iconoclast: Hyperlocal might need a little more journalism
  "Backfence tried to make money without rich, compelling content. The key is giving users quality content, which costs money to produce. You spend money to make money."
  (tags: hyperlocal journalism newmedia citizenmedia news internet web2.0)
• The Good, the Bad, And the 'Web 2.0' - WSJ.com
  Debate between David Weinberger of "Everything is Miscellaneous" and Andrew Keen of "The Cult of the Amateur."
  (tags: web2.0 internet media citizenmedia journalism)

Comments

[Charles Liu]

Can you blame the Chinese for wanting to counter spin the usual western media's propaganda terms like "regime", "cadre", "state organ?

The funny thing is, while western media (including majoirty of new media like blogs) default to "regime", "cadre", "state organ" when refering to China, the Chinese media and China bloggers do not use "Bush regime" to refer to our government, nor do they use "cadre" when our political appointees exert undue influence on scientific discourse in our "state organs" like NASA.

That's right, when our own government does the same thing the Chinese people have enough self-respect to emply more respectful terms like "government", "political appointee", "agencies", etc.

But we don't when it comes to demonizing China and her people.