Friday, November 18, 2005

internet - How AFP wants to make its own point

AFP really had a very entertaining way to open their article on the new Guo Liang report today. It read: "Internet in China may become powerful political tool. Of course, they quoted Guo correctly by letting hem say:
The Internet is supposed to be the information highway but according to our survey, for many Internet users in China, it is an entertainment highway.
But that did not stop them from giving their own political bias to his words. As they wrote further on:
But survey respondents had "strong expectations" that the Internet would change politics in China, which is today -- according to global media watchdog Reporters without Borders -- the "world's biggest prison for cyber-dissidents."
My estimation is that in this case 'change' means something different for the internet users than for AFP.

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