你是否一直在看新疆电视这些天吗? 我是一个风扇。 这是新的爱电视,所有corniest由中国官方媒体7月5日的事件发生后努力促进和谐24-7集中。 微笑的孩子,华丽的舞蹈,爱和团结各族邻居讨论协会长会议。 最好的服务与龙舌兰酒,柠檬,和一粒盐。
但伤势严重。 乌鲁木齐事件以来,这是一个月了,感觉好像有很多的分析方法做。 所有的媒体渠道,红热了一个星期,但他们尽快在街道上干的血液冷却下来,并没有新的见解是即将举行的。 太早辩论已被劫持未经证实的索赔,像热比娅的机会主义者,和来自中国的可预测的响应。 爱好和平的谁失去了他们的生活在乌鲁木齐的维吾尔族和汉族值得更好。
所以,是的,我有意识地看XJTV,我建议你做同样的。 对于缺乏任何更好的抗议其他媒体建立和,中国和外国。 因为无论怎么别扭XJTV的努力似乎,至少这个电视台是做它的工作。
新疆发生的事件比平淡的夏季覆盖更重要的,会导致我们想象。 这可能是1989年天安门事件后,在中国发生的最致命单一的政治骚乱。 它也是唯一的社会动乱,国际媒体已获准从地面报告的重大案件。 而且有重要的经验教训,借鉴经验,特别是在1领域 - 媒体和2 - 中国的政策。
中国媒体
我和我将永远是对国家控制的媒体,此处我尊重每个人,包括一些共产党员,同意我的观点:如果没有自由归咎于,所有的评论是毫无意义的。
但也正是因为我们不相信,媒体,我们不指望从他们太多。 毕竟,这是没有故障的作家或编辑,如果他们生活在这样一个系统,不是每个人都能成为英雄。 从这个相对的观点,我们可以说,中国媒体 - 中国共产党,这是相同的,在这种情况下的 - 已经做得很好。
事实上,7月5日事件之后的一个有趣的现象是媒体在平静下来的东西汉方的作用。 我们的乐趣,所有这些愚蠢的心脏变暖的文章 ,但可能是爱谈民族感情得到了片刻的关键控制。 如何在世界上很多次,你见过各族冲突*在2天内杀死一百多个简单彼得不超过国家所采用的温和力量?
选择把重点放在积极,打开归咎于外部因素的忠诚和谐的原则,中国媒体做了有价值的服务,他们的国家和可能避免更多的死亡。 这可能似乎是显而易见的的事后,但它可能被视为容易只是他们尝试呼吁汉的骄傲和灾难已接踵而至。
自由世界的媒体
但是,我们从自由世界的媒体?
新疆事件,对于我们许多人以下的辩论,特别感兴趣的反华偏见的西方媒体。 在讨论的最高点,2008年西藏事件后,西方媒体总是有一点,因为他们是被禁止从该地区,他们能不能在其报告不准确负责。 现在,我们有这种说法是没有有效的第一次重大骚乱。 的时间,以评估的结果。 他们的表现如何?
在我看来,它一直令人失望,至少有两个原因。
1 - 在媒体的很大一部分有很明显的偏见,对汉族和反对当局。 并不是所有的人极端无知的例子 ,因为这,但原则是明确的:他们的任务是见证中国的制度是如何不人道。 即使其中一些后来缓和他们的报告,其危害已经完成,7月中旬在欧洲旅行时,我发现一个共同的意见,“中国是屠宰其少数民族”。
2 - 幸运的是,免费的媒体在一定程度上自由和多元化的,我们已经看到从地面公平报告的一些例子。 特别是我下面的“每日电讯报”记者彼得福斯特,谁做了一个伟大的工作报告他所看到的廉洁。 然后,我这篇文章 ,事件发生后仅4天,和我的绝望,他宣布,他在假日离开。 如Blogger B&W的猫注意到 ,几乎所有的人很快就纷纷效仿,这一天,没有人告诉我们,真正在新疆发生的。
In the meantime, Xinhua and the others stayed at their posts, showing the Chinese and the World who really cares about Xinjiang, and who really cares about China.
Some Conclusions
There is something very wrong with the World media, and it is something much deeper than a anti- or pro- China stance. It has to do more in my opinion with how it is organized. Remember the line:
By pursuing his own interest he frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it.
It is a pleasure to read Adam Smith and imagine that, indeed, the invisible hand is working every day to make our lives better. And yet, this example has made clear that if there is one industry were the hand cannot work it is the media. That is, of course, unless we accept that its role is to produce “the truths we like to hear” in the same way as the role of Apple is to produce computers we like to use.
Because that is exactly the problem. The minute the media sees that there are no obvious CPC crimes, that the police is handling the situation well, and that actually a communist authoritarian regime sometimes does things better than a democracy, this is not interesting. It is not even about political lobbies or advertising companies' pressure, it is simply that most readers don't like it . It is more comfortable to live with their solid categories, Islamism bad, communism bad, democracy good. And the invisible hand says: journalist shut up.
There is a lot of talk on the internet about the future of traditional newspapers, and many are analyzing the reasons for their demise. Well, how about this one:
There has been a major political riot, the most deadly in 20 years in the most important rising country in the international scene, and the media has still not even attempted to explain the reasons behind the events, instead working full-time as a mouthpiece for a self-appointed leader in Washington with very dubious legitimacy, and who might possibly be connected with the terrorist group who has organized the killings of more than 100 people.**
I am not so idealistic to think that internet and blogs are going to change the situation. The information lobby will always be powerful, whatever the shape it takes, and in the end the mainstream reader will always read what he wants to read.
For the people who care, the only hope, now as always, is in diversity. And fortunately the internet works in the right direction for this. Visit this link for just one example of how a blog can provide you –if you take the time to read carefully- with better commentary than your Sunday paper.
* Interethnic clashes: whether or not the initial violence was organized by terrorist elements, by the time the Han mobs went out with bats it clearly became an interethnic clash.
** More about this upcoming.