A fun little hate site

July 9, 2001 7:14 PM

A fun little hate site posted by your friendly east-Asian police state. The header's a bit melodramatic for my taste, but...
posted by Bixby23 (14 comments total)

but..23 minutes later...
posted by clavdivs at 7:52 PM on July 9, 2001

i wonder if there's a david koresh hate site.
posted by elle at 8:37 PM on July 9, 2001

Personally, I like the header. It's very subtle. Not heavy-handed at all.
posted by Dirjy at 9:20 PM on July 9, 2001

I couldn't figure out what the heck these guys were trying to get at.
posted by davehat at 9:23 PM on July 9, 2001

love the skull.
posted by will at 9:37 PM on July 9, 2001

man, i see that goofy animated skull EVERYWHERE.
posted by jcterminal at 9:41 PM on July 9, 2001

Oh yeah. These guys are ready to host the Olympics. ... NOT!
posted by darren at 1:08 AM on July 10, 2001

Xinhua is a press agency, I wonder what happened to the journalistic objectivity.
Oh... yeah, now I remember... they're communists...
posted by Mihai at 1:33 AM on July 10, 2001

americans aren't objective.
posted by elle at 2:36 AM on July 10, 2001

Freedome of Religion rules! but what if indeed the group; is a cult?
posted by Postroad at 4:26 AM on July 10, 2001

Given that Xinhua is just a mouthpiece for the government one has to take such a site with a grain of salt. Of course it its propaganda to support the government's crackdown on the Falun Gong. However, most of these posts seem to be heavy handed themselves. I agree with elle that Americans aren't objective. Much of the american media is just as bad. So-called journalists being paid by MNC's who have a direct influence on the politics of the world. Make sure that your own house is in order before you condemn someone elses.
posted by Stretch at 5:26 AM on July 10, 2001

yeah, but still.... you have to admit that American corporate-media propaganda is a little slicker. Imagine if abcnews.com had a section of smallish press photographs of rather generic looking occasions (people signing a banner so small in the image it's illegible, some old government official guy at a podium wagging a finger, etc.) with captions saying "Students Praise Disney, Denounce AOLTW," "More Disney Products Now, Say Inner-City Firefighters".

Nope. Instead we get movie previews dressed up as pseudonews about events that happened over half a century ago.

Come to think of it, I prefer Xinhua's style.
posted by Vetinari at 5:56 AM on July 10, 2001

Make sure that your own house is in order before you condemn someone elses.

Why not condemn Xinhua Press Agency's attacks on and the Chinese government's policies against Falun Gong? You think that human rights violations should go unreported, unnoticed, and uncriticized because American news is biased in its own way, too. That is idiotic.

Repressive government-sponsored rights abuse is wrong, as is the parroting of the party line by a not-free press. Wrong any way you look at it, wrong from wherever your vantage point may be.

This post is doubtless brought to you by Microsoft, Shell Oil, Disney, and whoever else you think runs the place. Can you be so sure the Corporation's bony fingers aren't tweaking Metafilter's knobs?
posted by dfowler at 6:39 AM on July 10, 2001

Ruthlessly Repudiate the Running Dog Lackeys of the Ideologically Corrupt Falun Gong Cult! And Have a Nice Day!
posted by paddbear at 10:51 AM on July 10, 2001