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THE VIEW FROM DOWN UNDER: IT’S MORE CRUISE THAN HUGHES
JUL 12, 2005 - 1:47PM PDT
Posted by Adam Clayton Powell III
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WASHINGTON, July 12 - There's truly no business like show business.

That old song title was reinforced during a recent visit to Australia and New Zealand, where coverage of the U.S. was frequent, detailed and prominently played. But the lens through which America was presented to the South Pacific was not Wall Street or Capitol Hill.

Day in and day out, coverage of Washington is trumped by coverage of Hollywood. True, the latest news from the White House merits a news spot or a brief story on the inside international news page. But it's Hollywood that gets the big play,... FULL TEXT
 
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CHINA TAPS NEWS MEDIA, RESTRICTS INTERNET AS P.D. TOOLS DURING DISPUTE WITH JAPAN
APR 27, 2005 - 2:50PM PDT
Posted by Peter Herford
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Two recent developments in China point to the tools of media and public opinion control available to the Chinese government and how they are used.

Most recently, Japan-China relations have deteriorated on the heels of an old dilemma: How Japan handles history.

In 1937-38 during the war between China and Japan, Nanjing was the scene of a genocidal slaughter of about 300,000 Chinese. It was hardly a secret. Many nations condemned the event. The Japanese, hardly beloved after their invasion of Manchuria in 1931, were reviled. What has come to be known as the Rape of Nanjing has never been... FULL TEXT
 
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FOLLOW THE MONEY: IS TAIWAN ALREADY THE NEW HONG KONG?
APR 19, 2005 - 2:54PM PDT
Posted by Peter Herford
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In China there’s been a year’s worth of growth in the few months since my last dispatch.

You name it, and it has grown in China. Some examples: the Chinese trade surplus, the Chinese trade surplus with the U.S., and the Chinese trade balance with the rest of Asia, which has gone from deficit to surplus.

The numbers are staggering. Just a few months ago I wrote, “China herself is a debtor in much of the rest of the world. Particularly in Asia.” True then. Wrong now. About the only deficit remaining for the Chinese is with their Middle Eastern... FULL TEXT
 
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AL JAZEERA HELPS SPREAD DEMOCRACY, SAYS FORMER CRITIC PERLE
MAR 30, 2005 - 1:50PM PDT
Posted by Adam Clayton Powell III
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WASHINGTON, March 30 – One of Al Jazeera's fiercest critics in the U.S. now says the Arab satellite channel has become a vehicle to spread democracy in the Arab world.

Acknowledging this reversal of his longtime criticism of the channel, Richard Perle this morning said Al Jazeera's broadcasts of elections in Afghanistan and Iraq and anti-Syrian protests in Lebanon was advancing democracy in the region -- just by the pictures it showed.

"Images conveyed by Al Jazeera have been very powerful," Perle said.

Just a few years ago, Perle was complaining that Al Jazeera's powerful images of civilian casualties in... FULL TEXT
 
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NO INDEPENDENT ARAB MEDIA EXIST, SAY ARAB JOURNALISTS
MAR 4, 2005 - 2:04PM PDT
Posted by Adam Clayton Powell III
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WASHINGTON, March 4 -- There are no independent news organizations in the Arab world. That was the assertion of Arab journalists addressing a conference on Arab media today, who said the only truly independent voices in the Arab world are bloggers.

Even the new satellite television networks, such as Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya, were criticized -- including by one of Al-Arabiya's anchors, Hisham Melham. He credited the new networks with breaking taboos and showing the Arab world through Arab eyes, instead of through the eyes of European and American observers. But the networks focus only on the extremists.

"Misleading... FULL TEXT
 
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