Support for freedom on Internet
Google posted on its officla blog saying they are considering withdrawing from Chinese market. Peter Barron, one of Google’s head of public relations, explained the reason.
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Google did not accuse the Chinese government directly in the newsletter posted on its official blog, but said it was no longer willing to censor its Chinese search engine – google.cn.
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Google has 31% of the market in China compared with about 60% controlled by by its Chinese rival Baidu. The top executive of Baidu called the move “hypocritical” and financially motivated.
The vast majority of Chinese blogger supported Google’s decision to challenge the censors, but also showed their worries of the monopoly situation in the market after Google left.
Hillary Clinton also discussed Google’s strategy with its executives. The sudden appearance of Mrs Clinton’s hand in the dispute suggests that the US may be planning to use economic levers to force China to open up its iron grip on information.
My internship in BBC Chinese Service
I won the opportunity to fulfill an one-week internship in BBC Chinese Service months ago.
This is the vedio about my internship in BBC Chinese Service Ukchina website. The sector I am working at mainly deal with news about entertainment and culture. We also make an weekly radio programme called Entertainment Time.
My mentor said she has to watch many operas, movies and concerts after work. If you are not a fun of those things, it can be considered overwork; but if you like them, well, you can work and relax at the same time!
Should all drugs smugglers be executed?
News from Chinese media
British citizen Akmal Shaikh was recently executed in China. I compared reports from both the British media and from Chinese media, and found both of them had missed some crucial points worth discussion.
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British citizen Akmal Shaikh was executed in China under the charge of carrying up to 4,030 grams of heroin.
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Controversial point
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Watching media reports from the two nations, they each have their own point of view about one particular issue: his mental heath situation.
The British Foreign Office condemned China’s court had not given Mr Shaikh a mental health evaluation.
While China’s Supreme People’s Court (SPC) responded that the documents provided could not prove Akmal had the possibility to have a mental disorder, nor did members of his family have a history of mental disease, therefore he was not entitled to ask for a mental health assessment.
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There is no reason to cast doubt on Akmal Shaikh’s mental status. the SPC said.
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what Chinese media miss out
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Media in mainland missed many points they could have discussed with the Chinese audience, Jessica Chinese Service would like to discuss the underlying issues.
1 Even the report on BBC Chinese Service did not mention whether Akmal should be entitled to mental illness evaluation.
Jessica Chinese Service will ask:Is this only the difference between the Chinese law and British law? Is the Chinese law being too harsh or British law being too soft?
2 There is no Chinese media discussion about why Britain thinks it is”unacceptable”.
Jessica Chinese Service will ask:Why many parties, such as European Union and UN all condemns the execution of Akmal Shaikh? How would British law respond in the same case?
3 Many countries have abolished the death penalty, including Britain. In 2008, however, around 72% of the world’s total executions took place in China.
Jessica Chinese Service will ask:Considering Chinese population is only 20.1% of world’s population, what can you see from this figure? Between 80-95% of the population in China support death sentence, does high death penalty rate necessarily result in a low crime rate society or not?
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News from British media
News from British media
what British media miss out
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Both Chinese and British people showed their anger about this judgement on Internet, but for different reasons.
The ordinary Chinese people were angry about Akmal’s drug smuggling behaviour, many people compared his crime with the Opium War on the Internet.
I recall when Michael Fay was arrested and caned in Singapore for graffiti in 1994, many people in the US were also outraged and called Singaporean laws barbaric.
Considering the differences which exist in different legal systems, should government also share the responsibility to inform its citizen the different local law of their destination country? Such as trafficking more than 50 grams of heroin are punishable by death in China, or graffiti is illegal in Singapore.
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Suggestions
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Jessica Chinese Service will take this opportunity to raise questions above, and encourage my Chinese readers to review the legal system in China and human rights issue.
Noticing many Chinese do not understand why British government are ouraged about this case, I will put more effort on explaining WHY and try to minimise the misunderstand between these two different legal system and people’s way of thinking.
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strike is not as simple as I thought
BA crew are planing to have a strike Source:www.copyrightfreephotos.com
When I first arrived, I thought the strike system was perfect. The workers have the legal method to ask for their right, and most of the people would understand that and won’t be too selfish about it.
But until today, when I work on the news about the BA strike at BBC.
People’s reaction
I got the chance to go through people’s comments about this strike on internet, most the comments did not show any sympathy to the cabin crew in BA.
They are too busy worrying about themselves, they are completely indulged in their own miserable, can’t reunite with family before going to the war zone with british army, can’t afford staying extra nights in America after the son’s treatment.
Human nature
I was told that people usually understand people who need to strike. But today, many people complain about that the cabin crew’s salary is already too high for them, before they tried to find out what is the reason make those workers want to have a strike, people even made conclusion that those crew members just want to have some extra holiday.
Most of people were too angry and upset to think for others. That is sort of human nature, not everyone is perfect. Perhaps no one is perfect.
System & moral
After few days of blaming on cabin crew about their selfish, the whole thing did not get any progress.
Few days later, the result came out from the court, the judge made judgement according to the exact law. Yes, it is hard to please everyone, but luckily there is a law.
The good thing about the system here is that: no matter what you want to ask for, there is always a legal way to do it. And the independent judical system usually make both sides convinced with the result.
“did china hijack Copenhagen?”
Today's programme
Today’s programme’s topic was “did china hijack Copenhagen?”. I learned more than the answer at the end.
I was pleased to hear people question it, because this is the tone lots of British national broadsheet take in this issue. Obviously, people think more than what they hear.
But the situation is quite opposite in China. When I interviewed people from Mainland, except environmental activists, almost all of the people have the same opinion. They believed that the Chinese premier was almost a hero in this conference.
When I asked why do they think like that, they gave me different websites’ names. But, no exception, those websites are all mainstream mainland websites.
That is the only source they can get, if they do not understand English and did not buy the software to climb over China’s Great Firewall.
There was ONE girl asked me carefully in the phone, what did western media say about it?
My package for BBC—4
My second radio package for BBC
This package is about Christmas carol. I collected different people’s favorate song and their wishes to all of the listeners. You are welcome to visit BBC Chinese Service Enterntainment Time to listen to it.
Journalist ethnic: How word is taken out of context?
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In 2009, China, a professor from Beijing University’s word angered the society and many people started to protest outside Beijing University, but this may be not his fault but the journalist’s.
Sundongdong said at least 99% of China’s petitioners are mentally ill
Sun Dongdong event
His word(above) became many main media and website’s headline just over night. The magazine who did the interview were sold out in almost every vendor. On internet, this headline generated a huge discussion, most people reacted with fury.
The media I work for decided to interview him again. The chief editor thought that this event was very wired, it was not convincing enough, there must be something behind it. We wanted to hear his explanation.
So I called him. His colleague answered the phone and said he was in a meeting. After I explained the reason we want to interview him, his colleague gave me a bitter laugh and said :”His word was taken out of context“. He added,”We were very angry and wanted to sue the newspaper, but the university management decided not to draw any further attention from the media and the public. “
He said the university’s public relation department hope people can gradually forget about it over time. As a result, Sun Dongdong would not accept any interview from any media this period.
Sun’s colleague did not go into detail due to the school’s PR policy. Considering Sun is Peking University’s one of the most popular law professor among students, and most respected professional of mental illness in legal context industry, I doubt this story is as simple as reported.
Personal experience as an interviewee
I always playing the role of asking people questions. My first experience of an interviewee was on Online Journalism class when David asked the class to write a profile of the people sit beside you.
I did not feel comfortable during the interview. I could easily feel from her questions that the “journalist” had already had her own prejudgment.
But the worst part is that my word is taken out of context, and some part was just not true at all. For example, I told her my boyfriend did not like the idea of long distant relationship. Then she made a quick judgement “ she let her boyfriend defer a year of study”, even after I said that I did not do it solely for him, I also think one year work experience will be helpful too.
She used part of my word to serve her pre-judgement.
Jessica is doing interview for BBC Chinese Service
Journalism crisis
This is a very big word to be used here. I don’t want to be exaggerating, but just worried if things going on like this, people will less and less trust journalist in the future and it will be harder and harder to convince regular people agree to take an interviews any more.
This is not just a ridiculous worries, I did feel it is harder to convince experts from China Social Science Academy to take our interviews after Sun Dongdong’s event. When I tried to ask for a scholar’s email address from the secretary, she said “who is still willing to take an interview from a journalist.”
Her words really shocked me and made me think for a long time. Journalists do need to consider more things than interviewees, like how to draw the attention of the public, how to get opinions from different sides, etc. But most of all, and most importantly: be factual, do not take word out of context.
A journalist student’s busy life
1 Class and loads of assignments and papers
2 Internship in BBC World Service
3 Making radio package for BBC Chinese Service in my own spare time
Everyday I even do not have the energy to wash face before throwing myself to bed.
And also need to squeeze some time to spend with beloved family and friends.
Is it really has to be this tiring to be a journalist?
My article on BBC
The article about Christmas carol
This is my article on BBC Chinese website.
Because of my work, I had the opportunity to make a radio package about Christmas carol for the Entertainment Time radio programme. I also learned a lot more about Christmas knowledge myself. In this article, I talked about my new discoveries when I tried to make the radio programme.
I went to a church for the first time, and drank mulled wine there; I also learned how varied opinions people have for Christmas, it is really interesting.
Please feel free to go to the BBC Chinese Service and read my article.
My first radio package for the BBC
This is my first radio package for the BBC Chinese Service.
In this package, I interviewed an Chinese students exhibition in London. All of the participants were Chinese students studying art in London.
I was imprssed by their talent and the way they mix their Chinese background upbringing and British culture they learned here.
If you are intersted, please click on the link and listen to this package.
