China denounces European parliament over Tibet

[Mekong]

Chinese media has more freedom than the US.

 

That is just bullshit' date=' plain and simple.[/quote']

 

So please tell the world how long you lived in China for?

 

Oh you havn't so you are just sprouting the diatribe that the US press / goverment has conditioned you to.

 

QED!

 

For the record, I have held my foreign investments in Yuan (RMB) and not US$ since 2000, you know it makes sense!

[bust]

Early theories of journalism have hypothesized a corre­

spondence between the philosophy of the press and the political

system under which it operates. Nationalized news media in a

communist country, according to the theories, necessarily follow

the Marxist (totalitarian) press, philosophy that regards mass

media as an ideological and cultural arm of the state. While

media ownership under a capitalistic dictatorial regime remains

in private hands, the press is authoritarian in character in that it

supports the politico-economic goals of the regime at the ex­

pense of freedom of speech. By contrast, Western democracies

have bred a libertarian press system and philosophy with ideals

of freedom from outside control and freedom to perform watch­

dog functions vis-à-vis the political system.1

 

This hypothesis of politico-journalistic. correspondence is

also used by journalism scholars as a starting point of symbiotic

analysis, which purports to show that the: concept of social

responsibility 'of the press is viable only if it is related to a

press-government symbiotic relationship. News media under an

authoritarian/totalitarian political system would be considered

socially irresponsible if they overstepped the bounds of their

limited press freedom to disseminate ideas and information not

sanctioned by the government. On the other hand, "the press in

a libertarian country would be irresponsible. to its society if it

failed to be free of outside control, and if it failed to provide a

pluralism of information and ideas for the populace."2 The

symbiosis theory implies that a libertarian society, such as the

United States has no legitimate place for mass media oriented

toward authoritarianism or totalitarianism, and that libertarian­

oridnted media are nonexistent in an authoritarian/totalitarian

society.

 

While the symbiosis proposition is no doubt based on

empirical observations; it fails to account for the impact that the

increasing diversification of ideas and values in a changing

society can exert on the press-government relationship, thereby

giving rise to dissenting philosophies of the press within that

society. It is not uncommon, for example, that democracy move­

ments in authoritarian developing countries succeed in pushing

segments of the establishment press away from its authoritarian

orbit to take up a pro-oppositional stance.3 Where oppositional

forces have consolidated their political power base, new anti-

authoritarian media come into being to vie for ideological and

political influence with their authoritarian counterparts.

[rogueyam]

So please tell the world how long you lived in China for?

 

Six months. So what's your point?