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Chinese Al Jazeera? No Chance.

Reading David Bandurski’s ever keen observations over at China Media Project in “As China shout its line on Tibet, is anybody listening?”, I got struck by deja vu all over again. Three times. First, there’s the endless drumbeat of... ...full story at Mutant Palm

from Mutant Palm on Thu, Mar 26 2009

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05 Feb 09 visit Worth Reading: Can China forget it’s own history?  »  Granite Studio If it feels like I link to China Media Project a lot, it’s simply because David Bandurski runs a damn good blog.  Allow me to do so again and recommend his excellent post “Can China forget it’s own history,”  a must-read for anyo...
25 Aug 09 visit Seeking truth from whatever…  »  Granite Studio For what it’s worth, David Bandurski and his team at China Media Project absolutely rock, and today’s commentary and translation of a bit of whiny blather from Qiu Shi on “people being mean to China” or some other such spray of...
16 Jan 07 visit China: watchdog journalism prize  »  Global Voices David Bandurski from China media project summarizes the Chinese media’s criticism on Hunan “watchdog journalism” prize with some contextual information on the political meaning of “watchdog journalism” in China.
26 Mar 09 visit China: Official story on Tibet  »  Global Voices David Bandurski from China Media Project reports on the Chinese government's propaganda campaign on Tibet and the trip of “Living Buddha” to north America, but all effort seems to be in vain.
23 Apr 07 visit The Uber-Artiste  »  Black China Hand “I don’t accept the ways of Chinese cartoonists — most of them spend 10 or 20 years just drawing and drawing,” he said. “That’s not what I want to do. I write novels, I sing music.” A cartoon for China’s n...

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