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Q: What is your opinion of The China Daily?
Do you read the China Daily online? In your opinion, what are its strengths? What are its weaknesses?
I haven't read the China Daily online but I have read the newspaper edition at Costa Coffee before. One of the articles I read was that story about crazy english and although it was informative it wasn't really that memorable to me. It's better than nothing and it's always good to have something to read while your drinking coffee or hot chocolate. I've been finding myself reading The China Daily a lot when I go to Costa Coffee.
It mostly just regurgitates articles from better, more respected news outlets. Reading the comments on their internet articles is always good for a laugh though.
Too many articles are writen by Chinese themselves,so i think maybe they are kind of inauthentic.
I would like read foreign news published by BBC or CNN,and something else like Topix, because I want to know foreigner's opinions. Chian Daily just states views from our own perspectives.
China Daily is just the mouthpiece of the PRC for English, but I often get a great chuckle reading it everyday, as I get it for free. Helps me with my morning craps.
Kind of like Fox news for China....funny stuff.
I'm not finding it credible. Because it seems to be... propaganda-ish. While I still have access to real news reported by real journalists and not gov't mouth pieces... I'll chose that instead.
beaufortninja:
Not really trying to nit-pick you today or anything but FoxNews and CNN are effectively government propaganda. They build war fever for the US's illegal wars and they guide public opinion during presidential elections among other things.
HugAPanda:
Yeah, and I don't watch either of them either. Unless I'm drunk. And I don't drink. I'm actually pretty media savvy...
I find that the China Daily has considered changed over the years. When I first arrived in China, it was nearly a carbon copy, albeit in English, of the People's Daily.
Now, however, I find that they access Reuters, AFP, the NYT, the Washington Post, etc., etc., and pick-up many of their stories.
It does have a "China-slant" to it as the New York Times has an "American slant to it", etc., etc. It's just inherent in the publishing business.
And Fox News is somewhere to the right of Adolf Hitler.
Poorly written junk. All they do is scan Chinese papers and re-report what's been in them. If you read their articles it's always "According to the Beijing news...." ect. Pretty pathetic. They also choose what to cover. Ever notice they make a big deal if Carrefour sells a pound of rotten meat, but barely mention Chinese companies and their practices? It's all part of a government plant to smear foreign companies. I can't respect a paper with and obvious agenda like that.
Considering the scandals going on in the West, particularly in Great Britain with the newspapers there (the tabloids and what they write and how they destroy lives), I would hardly equate the China Daily with bird cage liner. The Sun, yes, perhaps indeed, the New York Post, for sure, other in that ilk, decidedly.
As for the China Daily "all part of a government plan to smear foreign companies", that so smells like McCarthyism redux.
nevermind:
And here's where we always see the constant epic and fatal flaw in the logic of the Wu Mao. Those newspapers in the UK were practicing improper procedure without ethics, yes. BUT they were also trying to nail the government and others with it. In China the papers are just garbage designed to shape public opinion. Notice before the blog registration laws how many stories about people abusing blogs were in the newspaper? It's pathetic. You may as well read a pamphlet.
And I don't think you even know what Macarthurism redux actually means. And yes, they do try their damndest to smear foreign companies all you need to do is read them to see that. So obtuse.
nevermind:
And here's where we always see the constant epic and fatal flaw in the logic of the Wu Mao. Those newspapers in the UK were practicing improper procedure without ethics, yes. BUT they were also trying to nail the government and others with it. In China the papers are just garbage designed to shape public opinion. Notice before the blog registration laws how many stories about people abusing blogs were in the newspaper? It's pathetic. You may as well read a pamphlet.
981977405:
Nevermind, what a whitewash of what the Murdoch papers were up to...hardly even close...they destroyed lives, investigated and harassed people who were victims of crime (like the man whose daughter was murdered) and they violated about every code of decency that is left in the British social fabric and then when caught red-handed, they simply disbanded. Not at all similar. No amount of whitewash, not even on your very part, can cover up their sordid deads. Invasion of privacy, destruction of character, harassment...I don't hardly think those are British traits.
giadrosich:
Btw, we are not talking about western news papers. Stay on topic, thank you very much!
981977405:
I believe that I posted the original post and thus have some leeway here, thank you, kind sir. And it is a logical comparison. Again, thank you, my good man.
Crappy propaganda, some interesting lifestyle pieces. This isn't a newspaper, it's a government pat on the back.
