12 April, 2008

The Media Role in Tibet Affairs

01 Nowadays people's intercommunication depends more and more on the public media, especially the Internet.

Before these days , maybe people sometimes would call friends to get together or chat about what is going on face to face. But with the development to modern media , people are more and more likely to be impressed by a media report.

Due to the deep sterotype in the Western MainStream Media, and most western people know little about China, so the media maybe is the only originate source on China Condition. (Chinese Government's limited open to the outside media also contribute to this problem)  After all the above reason, it's easy to tell that the media's report can easily change what they think about China. Because it's almost the only source. What else I can believe if i can only see one.

In this way, the people in Western Country are pathetic. They don't even know where is Tibet, Why Free Freedom, What really Happened in Tibet on March 15th 2008. But they have use their action to disrupt the torch relay,and Great Protest had happened. And so many People have their eyes on this Accidents.

And in my view, it's their rights to say their word, but only take it peacefully, not so voilently. No one will tolerate this shame, and China of course. In their protest , some actions are really not that so-called peaceful, even voilently.

I am in China, I don't need or want to argure that you are wrong. But our Government role in this accident. On this Accident, the defect of restrict the media freedom is obvious. For example, many people express their words on Youtube, one of the most popluar video-sharing sites, there are many video talking about this affairs such as torch relay protest, free tibet topic,etc.

There is words, and people can give comment on it. But in China ,with the internet sensor system by the government ,it's not easy to get access to this content. Then how can we let people know that we don't like that and what truth is. It's like that when i see the pic above,I'm so excited to join that to support our country. But it's not in american, it's not easy to have such events even we are support our country.

So the government should give up the internet sensor system as soon as possible or slowly loosen the restrict zone. It will contrilbute a lot to our Internation status if we have a good environment to talk freedomly. If it is done, more and more Chinese people would stand out to support our country, and do anything to protect China's glory.