blogging - Global flames online

Andres Gentry (you need a proxy to get there) has started a set of profiles of webloggers in Asia and after Far Outliers and Simon World, I have the honor of being interviewed. Now larger parts of the world outside Asia prepare for a shopping spree at Wal-Mart and other peace-encouraging thoughts, this is my take on how weblogging and the internet contributes to world peace:
Q 17A. Where is the most accurate news on China found today: in foreign media or Chinese media?
A: Assuming that there is one accurate way of reporting on China (or any other subject) seems a rather traditional US media approach that still cherishes the illusion of 'objective' reporting. It assumes that there is one truth and not different options at the same time. The interesting part of being at crossroads is that you see two different ways of framing sometimes the same story. In that way both foreign and Chinese media distort the facts both to make them fit for what are their audiences. In theory the internet could change those way, but what you see is mostly fierce China-bashing on the Western internet and uprisings of patriotic feelings at the Chinese internet. Getting a conversation going between those two forces would be probably a project that is as interesting as hopeless.