Media bias: Concrete evidence and contra-evidence.

Oh yea, found this on Economist forums by a certain "Maeglin". Yea, I'm totally addicted to Ex-communist v West discussion boards:

". . . But I have to ask you this - gentlemen, why do you trust your media? It has lied to you about WMD, it has lied to you about Kosovo and about 1st war in Yugoslavia.

We do not trust our media. We have learnt it the hard way. Why not take a piece of advice and not learn it the hard way yourself." :-) Lmao.

There are different approaches to the matter, the kinds of people are:

Ex-communist:
1. Trys to tell the truth as it is! (Yea! Go go go!)
2. Rebutts every comment (has gotta be a i-bank analyst, who else is smart, educated, able, interested in politics and also has so much forced screen time to spare?)
3. Trys to reconcile the truth and what is written from the two points of view.
4. Writes in non-English to tell everyone to chill. The westerners are a cult, they will never believe you
5. Writes about how disappointed in the economist they are (as if it has ever been any different)

Pro-western:
1. Arrogant American
2. Righteous American
3. The "understanding" American (I have lived in xxx for so many years.......)
4. The debater: dude, seriously, you could not scream "high school geek" louder if stuck a tag on your forehead and posted your picture along with your melodramatic, far too long, unoriginal, so-called ideas.
5. The historian. Speaking from his/her high and mighty pedestal of(biased) history textbooks. As if who won in the past matters.
6. Special case: Tibetans exiled, Georgians killed etc.....

Now....if only the wsj has a discussion board....sigh.


OMG. UNBELIEVEABLE! This from the WSJ.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121876874842643523.html?mod=djemITP

"Using the past week as a guide would indicate that the worst fears might be overblown. A combination of favourable winds, rain and strict government pollution controls have managed to keep Beijing's air quality below the government's threshold for safe air since the games began Aug. 8."

Damn, I'm becoming a western media watchdog. I need to read some Chinese media and post some translations of the "Chinese truth" on my blog.