Media in Taiwan
Posted in Footprints + Diary | By tarotoast |
As of now, in a simple statement: it’s chaos.
Whether you like it or not, if you tune to the news channel in Taiwan you will see parades, the President, the President’s family, and etc. The media has shaped the anti-government movement into some kind of fashionable activity. It has become something cool. Maybe it is.
I’m not here to defend the First family, but I’m here to point out that, as many people are aware of, that Taiwan is now controlled by the Media. THE Media. There is even discussion forum ‘media-chaos’ in PTT. A majority of Taiwanese agree with whatever the Media says. They think if it’s being reported on TV, it must be truth. Although truth, Taiwan’s Media also insert their values into reports. Maybe it’s better than the Media in China? I cannot compare, I don’t know. However, this insertion of value has turned the Media into the most powerful political weapon. THEY control Taiwan, basically, whether you like it or not.
There is not any foreseeable solution I can propose. Maybe someone someday can. I hope Taiwan is still Taiwan by then.
October 11th, 2006 at 3:56 am
The colonialism regime has to brainwash it’s people so they can do whatever they want to without being challanged or even overthrown.
So the best way for the Nationalist Chinese Government from China is to scrape Taiwanese of it’s collective memory, languages, history, and culture.
And they did it quite well for the past 50 years, only to fail recently.
So they’ve to find out another way to regain the mandate of Taiwanese in times of democracy.
Will they succeed one more time? They’re more than half-way.