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Originally Posted by Ronin4hire
Are you talking about Reuters? Yes I'm aware of this "source". Though it's not really a "source" rather a network which reporters tend to work through. It has no single major shareholder. In fact you could say that it's owned by and employs so many people that there is no possible way that you could say it has any "Western agenda".
The sources in this story are the tourists and few reporters that were actually inside Tibet.
And no I didn't watch the Chinese news channels. But I did see the reports on the Chinese media's relative silence on those protests. According to those reports, Chinese people found out about this via the internet. A media source that the Chinese government simply cannot control. I'm sorry but you'll have to give me substantial evidence rather than just saying so.
Yes there could be a million reasons why they didn't let reporters in. I was speculating on behalf of myself not "The West" when I questioned China's motive in banning the media. To claim that there could be a million reasons is dodging the question rather than giving me an answer which you obviously don't have.
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Yes, it is Reuters.
No western agenda? I think you'll find that it's mainly Western News Channels that use it. So, how can it not have a western agenda? Why is it you see channels promoting their ideas of "a different angle"? They're simply saying that they don't get ALL their news from Reuters, hence, not a lot of western agenda.
And how is it you suggest I prove this to you?
I got an idea (maybe), next time there is another issue with foreign affairs and china (which there definately will be with all this racist attitude towards the Chinese from many westerners and western media), go watch CCTV 1-12 (CCTV 9 is in english, if you wish to understand exactly what they're saying).
Obviously, I can't prove to you that they did show the protests etc, unless they're on Youtube or something, but you can't prove that this info has be aquired through the internet either. Which brings me to the point, do you think chinese people are stupid? If they aquired this information from the net, and they learnt the truth from the net, yet they saw their media lie, do you really believe that the chinese would be stupid enough to not figure out that the media is lying, or that they are stupid enough to let the media channels go on with their lies?
I find it hard to believe that chinese people would find the truth from the net to the point where they boycott french products, and yet not protest against their news channels that would obviously be "lying" to them
I'm not claiming I DO know the answer. I'm just simply saying that it's not good to say that the chinese are hiding something simply because they're not letting reporters in. Hence me saying, there "could" be other reasons, not only the reason that the media puts on page one. So as you can see, I'm not dodging anything, because I havn't claimed to know the truth. I'm giving my opinion based on the exagurations of media, history of tibet and Chinese people I know and have spoken to.