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"Do Not Question" - Full Directive From China's Ministry Of Truth On High Speed Train Wreck Censorship
You read about it previously on Reuters, now here, as per your 1st amendment protected right, is the full text of the statement issued by the Chinese Propaganda Department seeking to prevent broad dissemination and distribution of the news of the two high speed trains from Saturday. To wit: "The latest directives on reporting the Wenzhou high-speed train crash: 1. Release death toll only according to figures from authorities. 2. Do not report on a frequent basis. 3. More touching stories are to reported instead, i.e. blood donation, free taxi services, etc. 4. Do not investigate the causes of the accident; use information released from authorities as standard. 5. Do not reflect or comment." Obviously, that failed spectacularly, and as was reported earlier, has generated a broad wave of discontent among the population for this glaring attempt to put bureaucratic incompetence and corruption over human life. One thing is certain: at least America's own version of the DOT(ruth) is modestly more subtle... For now.
Courtesy of China Digital Times:
Central Propaganda Department: In regard to the Wenzhou high-speed train crash, all media outlets are to promptly report information released from the Ministry of Railways. No journalists should conduct independent interviews. All subsidiaries including newspaper, magazines and websites are to be well controlled. Do not link reports with articles regarding the development of high-speed trains. Do not conduct reflective reports.
Additional directives for all central media: The latest directives on reporting the Wenzhou high-speed train crash: 1. Release death toll only according to figures from authorities. 2. Do not report on a frequent basis. 3. More touching stories are to reported instead, i.e. blood donation, free taxi services, etc. 4. Do not investigate the causes of the accident; use information released from authorities as standard. 5. Do not reflect or comment.
Reminder on reporting matters: All reports regarding the Wenzhou high-speed train accident are to be titled “7.23 Yong-Wen line major transportation accident.” Reporting of the accident is to use “ ‘in the face of great tragedy, there’s great love’” as the major theme. Do not question. Do not elaborate. Do not associate. No re-posting on micro-blogs will be allowed! Related service information may be provided during news reporting. Music is to be carefully selected!
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Damn.. what's next? Tanks runnin' over people who disobey? Oops..
Wow. I wonder what Chinese TPTB would make of the Drudge headline from yesterday:
Although the story has that desired element of "tragedy-brings-out-maximum-love-happy", it only takes a couple of commas or pauses to make for a very different story:
LULZ...Perhaps a new Saturday morning cartoon?
ya gotta admit..
America could use a Mao right about now...
Operation: Sweep and Clear
"Inferior men should NOT be employed!" -- I-Ching
bbbbut...bbbbut...China is the FUTURE.
They do everything so well and we suck.
GFD I SURELY wanna drive on that new Bay Bridge with Chinese construction. Fkin Awsumz
Well Shirley, no one cares where you drive!
Good thing there aren't any red bastards among us....
you got that right
No, He has it wrong actually. The US has lots and lots of Red bastards of all colors.
koot, that is deep sarcasm. If there is one thing that unites this diverse group, it si the knowledge that the reds, via OhMama, his mentor (possibly father too, I've read variously)whose name slips my mind...
And overall, as is probably well understood, demoncrazy is communism in disguise. A weak disguise at that.
Try getting an elected "representative" to listen. Better yet, look at the power pyramid.
Some of us are more equal than others indeed.
Four legs good......
Oink!
ORI
http://aadivaahan.wordpress.com/2011/07/24/doldrums-and-cliff-edges/
GDP growth is hgh and soft landing is imminent. Do not question that.
Do not question.
I think that summarizes China.
And the United States Of Blanc Cheques!
Obama's Ministry of Truth gameplan on debt:
1. If the ceiling isn't raised by 2.5 trillion, people will die.
2. All SS recipients will be murdered by Republicans
3. Without the President, the debt would be over 30 trillion
4. Obama made 4 hole-in-ones yesterday
I believe the DEAR LEADER, why don't you?
Only 4? I figured it would be hole-in-one on every hole, did the Dear Leader suddenly become demure?
His driver was a little off on the par 5's
I thought maybe it was the caddy Tiger Woods had to fire.
Not planes, not boats. It was really a train accident and they are telling the truth in this regard. Gotta see the good side of things.
Wasn't one of these directives issued by our government during the banking crisis in 07-08?
You know about this stuff but to see it laid out in black and white is still amazing.
China Digital Times, run out of Berkeley California? Sure, I trust their sources are "unbiased".
I must humbly dispute the logic of your conclusion: the fact that the Chinese media require such directives points out their relative inexperience(of the past decade standing at any rate!) at being well trained lackeys of the current crop of little emperors....
Amerika's media whores need no such reminders....no grinding in the gears of corporate MSM!
Yup, our media doesn't have the nice dead giveaway like that, you have to figure it out yourself. See, China's government is actually being helpful to the people!
well, to dovetail with that Peacock thread, you almost have to wonder if the people who push the MSM message of consume, consume, consume, and establish these images that people feel the need to live up to are RELATED to the people who are standing on the other side waiting to lend you money. It's almost as if they are all part of the same family or something.
this focus on things Chinese is great, fighter jets, crashing trains how about an update on Foxcon and the slave factories that keep American consumers satisfied
‘In the face of great tragedy, there’s great love’” I think you got that back-wards from a Fabio novel.
That's classic Jedi mind trick 101.
some footage of the wreck:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViAyQMYAqz4
Did someone in the White House write this directive?
They should outsource all reporting to CNBC
China has built its HSR system by stealing European and Japanaese technology. Yep, its a high tech knock off. Is anyone surprised its not as good as the original?
seriously, how do you know they stole from Euro and Jap?
To me you are brainwashed successfully. congrats.
are you stupid? He knows because he did some research. In fact, both the Japs and the Euros have already complained about China's wanton stealing of their technology, which China is now trying to turn around and resell.
I mean, WTF, you think they just steal and copy everything ELSE but the train system is indigenous? Are you a freakin moron or something?
trav7777 (total score:7777)
Fixed for you, Tyler.
Well, I can't talk about Train Tech being stolen by China.
But I can confirm that China buys machines, makes reverse engineering and makes copies (not improvements).
Once a friend was called to service one of his machines (he had set it up and start-up) and when he got there, something was different and couldn't tell initially what it was... eventually he noticed it was a copy-cat machine, same colors, layout, brand, everything.
He was puzzled and asked what happened to the machine, and they confirmed it was one they built same as his, without any concern.
He left and told them to call him only when HIS machine was failing.
"Do Not Question" summarizes China? Oh really? I mean sure it does but to me it sounds just like HERE of late. I mean, read much about Fort Calhoun lately? No news MUST mean all is well there, right? Just like with Fukushima, babe: nothing to see here, move along. Hell, there's not even any need to report on it anymore. Things are just that peachy.
To me it just sounds like the Chinese hired Commissar Chertoff to sort it all out. Took all that 'Nawlins expertise and competence with him I guess. Now watch, he'll sell the poor bastards a shit load of his special GIR/SU "Security" scanners (Gentile Irradition/Sterilization Units) as part of the deal. Commissar Mikey gets a spiff on every Gentile fried. Extra bonus for all Shiksas who won't be able to bear any awful Gentile kids after just a couple of trips through. Sweet technology, eh? What a Human! What a gifted businessman!
Well I guess it's one way to deal with Chinese overpopulation.
Totally agree and do you notcice that no one I repeat NO ONE says nuclear disaster . the media seems to have banned the expression. All one hears is : tradgety of earthquake and tsunami : T earthquake was natural and though the loss of life was terrible at least people could have moved on without fear of whwt the air,water and food would do to their health.
You guys gotta be kidding. over 10k people killed by natural causes -- a couple days media. No one killed by reactors and it's still news. That's sick people "letting no crisis go to waste to push an agenda". That's my definition of deranged, cold attempts at manipulation.
Let me let you in on a little secret. There are (at least) half a dozen reactors already on the ocean floor -- sub accidents, not reported, and some still going full crank down there, leaking away. From both of the main cold warriors that had nuclear subs. You can even find them if you can get ahold of some un munged IR sattelite photos. Lucky they are in general so far down that the trrrists can't get to them, as they used highly enriched U and are dirty as hell.
I *am* a nuclear physicist, concentrating on fusion and no particular friend of fission plants, but....
Under some very ideal conditions -- rain collection from clouds that formed over Fukishima and then dumped here (which is how NRL got isotopes from the first Russion tests btw) and with the very best gamma spectrometerr money can buy -- I managed to see a tiny amount of radioactive iodine 4 days after the accident. Total level about 1/1000th of the *natural background*. Some of which is caused by coal burning plants, the main alternative to fission right now. (I run on solar here, totally, but most won't pay forward for that privelege).
Yeah, sucks for Japan -- stupid to build reactors where they did, but their NIMBY problem is even worse than ours, so it went near the po' folk. Surprised? Yes, some number of people will die a little younger than otherwise due to the leakage - not many, and nothing compared to what the water did. Did you know they refused volunteers to help clean it up? Old people with little to lose from an increased chance of cancer decades out volunteered to help and were refused.
Nuke fanatics -- pro or anti, remind me of that other kool-aid -- Dems vs Pubs. Missing the point entirely. How about "Weird weather kills crops all over USA"? Back off a little and look at the forest, not the individual trees.
..a city of love and warm..
Something is to happy!
This is not here.
by George Chen
http://blogs.reuters.com/george-chen/2011/07/25/not-just-an-accident/
reminds me of the Journo-list (non) scandal here in the US. same level of collusion....a defacto state-run media here anyways....
Yep, but in the west nobody would ever accuse the media of being in bed with the Oligarchy. That only happens in those other countries.
For shits and giggles sometimes I will listen to a top of the hour news break on the radio, and then research what topics they cover. The slant is so easy to see now, it is almost too easy. I guess taking that red pill really does work.
pods
Maybe it is terrorism, oh boy, big sis REALLY hopes it is terra
Who runs that place? Rupert Murdoch?
wow
Music is to be carefully selected!
And this, intrepid journalists of China, is where you can get the most bang for your truth seeking buck if you want to push the envelope...
So China has a different flavor of propaganda, BFD.
To cast stones are their reporting is the exclamation point of the pot calling the kettle black.
Media in the West (US primarily) hasn't asked a tough question in years. Well they will, but only to individuals that have no great impact on everyone's lives. Ask a tough question to someone in charge?
Hell no.
So Mr. President, if too much debt caused this problem, why is more debt going to solve it>
blah, blah, blah.
Again, Mr. President, if too much debt caused this problem, why is more debt going to solve it?
<flops on floor after being tazed>
Any more questions?
We in the US have the Grandest of Illusions. Freedom.
pods
I wonder what censorship may evolve from the new Bay Bridge spans on their way from China right now? Maybe they will only report news on the good sections.
My thought exactly. Is this futher proof that slave labor in China can build it as well? Who wants to be the first to cross the new Frisco bridge built by China?
...during an earthquake.
But, But, But if everyone on that train had had guns everything would have been fine. Just like it was treason for the camp counselors at the Norwegian labor party camp over the weekend not to have automatic pistols.
they have already used excavtors to try to destory the wrack into piece and bury it at site in attempt to hide faulty design and tried to bury people alive to hide death toll.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po5XmfG-lB0&feature=player_embedded
watch 0:09 and 2:56, 2 people/corpse fell off the wrack.
chinese govt "resuce" team did not bother to search the wrack. Later (not in the video) a surviving 2 year old girl was found in the wracks when they teared it into pieces, 16 hours after the crash. More people could have survived if they really try to do rescuing and not censoring at first place.
edit: another video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIhvbsU4VCw&NR=1
ps: eariler video hosted in chinese sites are all deleted/edit by govt
I thought ZH is only stupid about US stock market, since they have been wrong consistently for 2 year. It's not a shocking fact that ZH people miss the WHOLE bull run. hey, money is money.
Anyway, apparently ZH is also stupid about China.
China Digital Times is sponsored and organized by US univerisy. How much credits do they have?
In my eyes, none, zero, 0%. It's not surprising that pretty much every news in their site regarding China is negative.
I am sick of it. oh btw, did you buy dip today? LOL
Did you learn Engrish today?
Not use plural, not use the article -- sound funny!
Sound like Changlish. But maybe me wrong.
So solly.
Here is a link for the Bigots at ZH.... http://www.mugabeandthewhiteafrican.com/
The Wenzhou train wreck is known to almost everyone in China. There was a major fuck-up after a mishap and people died. The trains are fast and they are packed with people. Trains are cool, but Train wrecks are ugly. "I often dream of trains when I'm alone"- Hitchcock
The fake "directive" posted by China Digital Times is also well known in China. It's a gag/hoax, but reflects the reality to some extent. It should be interpreted as high sarcasm not news. The China Digital Times is not a reliable source but they do report the rumours with spin.
I would say Shame on the NYT for cherrypicking and publishing emo/groupthink netcrap, but that's the business they are in. There's an agenda there too.
Everyone knows about inflation.
There is widespread denial about the housing bubble.
Some understanding of the culture in China to understand what makes it tick could be useful.
Meanwhile, if you have somewhere to go in China, take the train.
If you want absolute safety, it's best to cower at home.
yea right, take the train, to hell.
what they did basically is equivalent to destorying black box after plane crash.
their stated first pirority is to resume survice.
they did not stop all trains with same model.
No safty check on other trains as well.
No investigation allowed.
Lives are so cheap in china. poor people.
Easy for you to judge from your distance, tigerC.
The cause is obvious. Having remedied that, engage.
Transportation is so convenient in China and so cheap.
Poor People.
The cause is very obvious. The Chinese relied on foreign supplied hardware, software and system design. As usual when problems occur during development that point to glaring holes in the system design the foreign management decided to cut corners. Best to keep the customer in the dark because they are not qualified to trace the cause for system failures.
Have they hired Hill & Knowlton for the PR on this thing?
who is better? a .gov that tells you they serve urine to drink and bs to eat or a .gov that serves urine to drink and bs to eat while insisting it is lemonade and chgunky beef stew.
Useful idiots need to be reminded from time to time of the real face of the Commies who run China.
Like they would never do that in the west?
the Chinese are good at stealing trade secrets
turns out they're lifting course materials from US Journalism schools as well
Did they forget to patent blatent lying and make it part of the WTO agreement ?
rumor say 200+ people still missing. bording ticket numbers and dead, injuried, surviving counts cant add up.
hope they were not inside the buried trains.
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