Posted on Wednesday, October 26, 2005 9:47 PM
#news & review #central kindom
everytime a web site is blocked in china, many foreign bloggers/journalists will make a lot of noisy criticisms and chant the praise of "free speech" and "free press". just how important or relevant these blocked web sites are to the life of most chinese people seems not of their interest, some of them even suggested to boycott MNCs like yahoo to satisfy their moral high grounds of "promoting free press". and influenced by their views, some chinese followed their course to condemn the blocking of these web sites.
i have one question to ask for them - could you do something more important and constructive?
as we all know, the blocking of these web sites, in its worst situation, influence the life of a few thousands in china, while at the same time, the corrupt journalists/media taking money from firms and various organizations and writing misleading articles to fool the public is a everyday story in china, as i know, the norm of taking money from firms to make favorable media exposures was cultivated by many MNCs in china, which bribe chinese journalists in the name of "media PR" or "marketing PR" activities, and bribe them when they have a "PR crisis". such collusion affects the lives of millions of people and you could do something to change it, especially a lot of them are related with MNCs in china.
couldn't you do something more important but less satisfying for your moral superiority? i just wonder.