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- From: hhwu@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (eric.wu)
- Subject: World Journal
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 18:18:30 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.181830.26904@cbnewsh.cb.att.com>
- Lines: 68
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- In article <ljcai7INNoh6@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> stlin@stevelin.Eng.Sun.COM (Steven Lin) writes:
- >
- >In the late 70's the World Journal was based in Hong Kong and owned by Hong Kong
- >finance group. The United Daily News of Taiwan took over and then the news
- >publication was reorgnized. Instead of reporting Hong Kong news only, the World
- >Journal expanded to report: world news, Taiwan news, mainland news, Hong Kong
- >news, and south east Asia Chinese community news. It has published over 40 some
- >pages since then. In Chinese news publication, it is number one in the US
- >Chinese reader market.
-
- China Times was also published in the US for a period of time. Can
- someone refresh my memory on how its owner got little Jiang mad at
- him and had to stop?
-
- >
- >Though the owner is a KMT, the WJ apparently has no dedication to KMT. Though
- >it is emphasized on Taiwan news, it is not a pro-KMT newspaper in general.
- >
-
- My impression is quite different: Not only that WJ is biased toward KMT,
- it is biased toward a certain faction of KMT. The next is one of my
- recent observations.
-
- While I was trying to find out what was going on with the land tax and
- Wang Jian Shuen, I read the WJ carefully for many days. According to
- WJ, Wang is a Saint who would fight to his death to right the wrongs in
- Taiwan. He was betrayed by the Present and he could not carry out what
- he planned to do and had to resign. Until today, I still don't know
- what happened because I really don't know how much to trust what I read.
-
- I subscribe to WJ to keep in touch with Taiwanese affairs (and hone
- my skill of reading between the lines) and the "Fu Kan" is not bad.
-
- >
- >Recently, the TIers in Taiwan accused that the United Daily and World Journal
- >as a message passer of People's Daily. No matter what the accusation was, is
- >there any basis to say so? Isn't that funny to say so? Or TIers just try
- >to blacken everything that does not work in the same line as TIers want to be?
- >
- UD and WJ never try to hide their staunch anti-TI stance. If they can
- use PD to serve their purpose, it's too bad to the TIers. Life is not
- fair and never will, especially for those who dare to voice different
- opinion. I wouldn't call WJ a message passer for PD though. WJ is so
- inconsistent in quoting different sources while reporting on China,
- very often in the same section we can see one article kissing CCP's
- behind and another that can be suited for slander. I guess this is
- neutral journalism to some.
-
- Before 1/1/92, I would say "China Times Weekly" was the most readable
- publication for Taiwanese. By readable I mean not much mental
- correction is required. But since the re-direction of that magazine,
- I now consider it a communist running dog. It mainly reports on China
- and Hong Kong and for foreign names it only uses China's translation.
- I expect it to be published in simplified characters soon. (As you
- can see, I am very ****ed about this change but this is a very neutral
- and totally unbiased opinion.)
-
- >
- >If WJ is a pro-CCP newspaper, I would think that there is no newspaper in
- >Chinese community is a neutral one. What do you think?
-
- Sometimes I wonder if we have enough clean minds left to publish
- a "reporting the facts only" newspaper in our generation. The
- journalism of our major newspapers is not very respectable. Too
- many commentaries are reported as news, even when the reporters
- didn't mean to do so.
-
- Eric
-