http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDD5waedS4I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STtKvS3NM18

No Western media has ever investigated the social problems in the Uighuer residence areas in other major cities of China. Simple questions are: 1), why can Uighuers carry large knives without prosecution while Han Chinese cannot? 2), why few Han Chinese people would like to step into Uighuer’s neighborhood in the night? 3), why Han Chinese dare not to confront with Uighuers even if they saw those the Uighuers are picking their wallets? Seemingly unrelated to the Xinjiang incident, they are part of the answer to understand why the two ethnic groups ended up bursting out their grievances with a loss of nearly 200 lives.

While the Chinese media is politically restrained from such investigations, what the Western media have done instead? For ordinary Chinese, they don’t need the State media to figure these questions out, since they have real-life experiences. Then, where is the Western media? Yes, we enjoy freedom. But sometimes, we have to admit that our freedom is compromised thanks to a freely adjusted gauge in face of a solid appearance of incidents.

Back to the issue of media, I think we are taking a one-way road in a wrong direction, if we continue to argue what we can perceive from the media. The Western media is symbolic to Freedom media, because the journalists are ordinary people who can freely disseminate their opinions in the public domains without political interference. However, as an ordinary people, are we also able to describe any incidents in a purely subjective manner? Instead of challenging the fairness of the media, I think it is more meaningful to gauge our personal subjectivity.

Astonishing in this instance, the ordinary people (including Porfiriy) tend to ignore the feelings of the vast majority of the victims, Han Chinese. When you times 90% by 1.3 billion, the significance seems not negligible. However, when you come to the issue of subjectivity, you simply presume that those people are brain washed and not accountable. No matter what, you have to admit that those Han Chinese are a great step closer to the incidents. They are not the government, but they are blood-fresh people like you and me.

Ask around your Chinese colleagues or friends. Hear their stories. The big issue is not the media, but a plain ignorance of the values and beliefs of over 1 billion population. It is like wiping out the Declaration of Independence with your pencil-head eraser, pretending that no one actually drafted it, saw it, and live for it.

Here is the link of a really moving love story. Please have a look, and see how you like it:

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XOTEzNzcyMjA=.html

In the times of war there is no doubt what so ever that the Western media is the engine of the government. Iraq war is the perfect example, where US government worked harder than the Chinese government in restricting information to the point that lots of foreign reporters died doing their jobs not at the hands of terrorists but at “friendly fire” by the US military. If that is not a threat to free speech what is? When was the last time you hear a foreign journalist getting killed reporting in China?

Better yet, I am interested to see exactly why do you believe how one version is “better” than another. How do you define a “good job” when it comes to journalism?

I express in my post no knowledge of the riots. My observations, in line with the theme of this post, are solely about media coverage and, having observed both “western” and chinese media coverage, I come to the conclusion that the “western” media is doing a better job in comparison. This isn’t about who produced the “correct” version of events, but who provided the “best” version of events. I am sure I could quantify this with examples if absolutely necessary, but from the tone of your reply, I am not sure it would make any difference.
Regards

Which is the reason why I don’t have the time to answer one by one your comments (I also have a day job) But I will come back when I finish my writing. thanks again!