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Reuters reports the first Chinese blog movie

the following is a translation of the post from buchimifan blog:

foreigners inevitably linked a blog movie of entertainment nature with politics. looks like that foreigners are more likely to let politics to take command everything than chinese. the title is shocking - "Chinese bloggers take political satire offline!", and look at this, the famous Reuters can not even figure out what a story the movie tells - "The 50-minute film, made in a day with no budget and with basic equipment, tells the story of a man picked up by police and mistaken first for a bank robber and then for one of China's best known film stars, while he tries unsuccessfully to convince them he's only a blogger", oh my! Xiao Qiang is a blogger?!

and this one - "He's hilarious -- and very sharp," said Xiao Qiang, director of the China Internet Project at the University of California at Berkeley and a follower of Dai San Ge Biao's blog, which goes by the title "Massage Milk", so the interviewee's name is also Xiao Qiang? is it a coincidence or an arranged one?

in the afternoon, a friend of BBC came to my home and i showed him the report, and this got his attention - "There's no point, really, it was all just for fun," said one of the actors, who has a day job as a think-tank researcher", he asked me if the actor has no other choice but to answer the question in that way? i told him that we shot the moive just for fun, what else should we answer the question other than "just for fun"?

the moive, in my view, essentially has nothing to do with politics, now it becomes so ridiculous with the misinterpretation of foreigners!

and the reuters translated "very free" into "so free their balls ache!"

by comparison, deutsche welle calling Wang Xiaofeng as a "cynic" is not that irrelevant.

they must be "so free balls ache!"

Bonus girl blogging - "Golden flower" of Chinese Zhuang minority

posted @ 11:28 AM

Ethical dilemma in the anti-MSN protest - II

i just wonder how Isaac could reconcile the discrepancies between his anti-msn campaign and his blog "service items".

bear in mind that Isaac's integrity is not my concern here. a lot of people including myself face similar dilemma almost everyday and often choose to compromise. the question i want to ask is that is morality a proper angle to observe and analyze many issues in today's china?

to continue the previous post

take the coal mine disasters for example. at the beginning, the public blamed the owners of coal mines for those disasters, later found that officials of the local government should take more responsibilities for these malpractice because they took bribes from mine owners and collaborated with them to overlook the safety measures, so the original "evil mine owners" now have an equially "evil" collaborator - the local officials. with more information have been revealed, the public learned that the "evil officials" needed to take care of the pensions of the retired officials and that was why they invested in coal mining business, and why the coal mining business was so profitable, because china needs energy and oil import is not enough, so maybe the public should blame the "evil" american congressman who stopped a chinese firm from purchasing an oil company in the US. there are even more "evil" guys involved, coal mine business owners have to squezze the profits as soon as possible due to the policy opacity in this indsutry, so the related ministries are also "evil", actually the central government can not avoid being blamed, performance of the local government is evaluated by GDP growth, that contribute to the proliferations of small coal mines that lack necessary safety measures. to be honest, i am "evil" too. i consume a lot of energy at my home, car, office buildings and i travel a lot by airplane.

almost everybody is responsible for the coal mine disasters and, most of them can not *choose* given all the "options" they have.

TBC.

posted @ 10:46 AM