Monday, April 14, 2008

Anti-protest Protesters?

So I was just proxy-browsing the BBC Chinese news, and the headline there was "Thousands of Chinese Hold Peaceful Protests in Sydney".

Funnily enough I hadn't read anything about this in the actual Australian online news-sources, and then in the end of that BBC story that actually point out that this has been under-reported in Australia (getting only 10 seconds airtime on a local tv station apparently).

The article says there was about 5000 protestors, more than the 1000 which were expected when they organised the gig with the police. So it seems pretty newsworthy.

Weird. I trust the BBC to be accurate on this, as much as Chinese language reporting can be accurate (or media in any language, for that matter).

Oh, and as the title says, according to the BBC article they were protesting about what they perceive as unfair treatment that China has been getting over Tibet, and criticising the Tibetans for the violence in their protests.

5 comments:

Paul said...

You should know only too well that the Australian media's focus is sport. Watch any news on TV and 90% is sport, 8% local news, 1% business and 1% international news.

Read any Australian paper, the Cairns Post for example, and you'll see the majority of advertisements are for booze, cars and houses, in that order. I'm guessing the vast majority of the Australian population aren't that concerned about Tibet or China!

MB said...

hmmm I was told by a Uni Professor friend from Tokyo that in Japan all the Chinese students studying there have been ordered to attend the torch ceremony.
Also, MDR and I couldn't help noticing how the pro-Chinese supporters in Sydney all had masses of identical flags and banners (saw it on ABC TV news), which were also identical to the ones we saw in use by supporters in Indonesia and other countries where the torch was taken. Damn good business for the banner manufacturers 'ay

Anonymous said...

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