Comments on: How to report Hong Kong’s election http://www.blackandwhitecat.org/2008/09/09/how-to-report-hong-kongs-election/ China and Other things Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:12:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: Micah Sittig http://www.blackandwhitecat.org/2008/09/09/how-to-report-hong-kongs-election/#comment-30939 Micah Sittig Wed, 17 Sep 2008 01:24:36 +0000 http://www.blackandwhitecat.org/2008/09/09/how-to-report-hong-kongs-election/#comment-30939 CCTV news coverage of the Sanlu story last night was pretty funny, they had a news announcer reading the results of tests of many, many domestic brands of baby formula in a monotone voice that only a bureaucrat could love. CCTV news coverage of the Sanlu story last night was pretty funny, they had a news announcer reading the results of tests of many, many domestic brands of baby formula in a monotone voice that only a bureaucrat could love.

]]> By: rob http://www.blackandwhitecat.org/2008/09/09/how-to-report-hong-kongs-election/#comment-29818 rob Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:06:12 +0000 http://www.blackandwhitecat.org/2008/09/09/how-to-report-hong-kongs-election/#comment-29818 Yes, CJ, I am. Yes, CJ, I am.

]]> By: CJ http://www.blackandwhitecat.org/2008/09/09/how-to-report-hong-kongs-election/#comment-29796 CJ Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:43:32 +0000 http://www.blackandwhitecat.org/2008/09/09/how-to-report-hong-kongs-election/#comment-29796 One particularly interesting fact I learned from Xinhua’s article: apparently there were no elections in Hong Kong before it returned to China. Before Hong Kong’s return in 1997, the members of Hong Kong’s Legislative Council were appointed by the British Hong Kong authorities. Take that Lord Patten, Baron of Barnes. --- You're being sarcastic - right? One particularly interesting fact I learned from Xinhua’s article: apparently there were no elections in Hong Kong before it returned to China.

Before Hong Kong’s return in 1997, the members of Hong Kong’s Legislative Council were appointed by the British Hong Kong authorities.

Take that Lord Patten, Baron of Barnes.

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You’re being sarcastic - right?

]]> By: rob http://www.blackandwhitecat.org/2008/09/09/how-to-report-hong-kongs-election/#comment-29396 rob Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:19:36 +0000 http://www.blackandwhitecat.org/2008/09/09/how-to-report-hong-kongs-election/#comment-29396 @Sarah Damn. I actually wrote it with an "e" originally (honest) but then for some reason went back and changed it just before I went to sleep. @abde Not sure I'd agree with this being a huge exception. The 2004 election was reported too. I can't be sure about earlier elections because I wasn't paying enough attention. On the question of details, you do have a point. There are so many parties and people whose names don't really mean anything to most people outside of Hong Kong that they get lumped into "pro-democracy" and "pro-Beijing" camps. I'm not all that keen on those descriptions, but can't think of anything better - and the state media on the mainland is certainly not going to use them. In the end, the safest thing to do to avoid offending anyone in Hong Kong is to not mention any candidates, parties or issues at all. On the other hand, isn't that what an informative piece of news is supposed to do? @Sarah
Damn. I actually wrote it with an “e” originally (honest) but then for some reason went back and changed it just before I went to sleep.

@abde
Not sure I’d agree with this being a huge exception. The 2004 election was reported too. I can’t be sure about earlier elections because I wasn’t paying enough attention. On the question of details, you do have a point. There are so many parties and people whose names don’t really mean anything to most people outside of Hong Kong that they get lumped into “pro-democracy” and “pro-Beijing” camps. I’m not all that keen on those descriptions, but can’t think of anything better - and the state media on the mainland is certainly not going to use them. In the end, the safest thing to do to avoid offending anyone in Hong Kong is to not mention any candidates, parties or issues at all. On the other hand, isn’t that what an informative piece of news is supposed to do?

]]> By: sarah carmichael http://www.blackandwhitecat.org/2008/09/09/how-to-report-hong-kongs-election/#comment-29388 sarah carmichael Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:10:00 +0000 http://www.blackandwhitecat.org/2008/09/09/how-to-report-hong-kongs-election/#comment-29388 Pedantic comment - "Patton" should be Patten, with an "e". Pedantic comment - “Patton” should be Patten, with an “e”.

]]> By: abde http://www.blackandwhitecat.org/2008/09/09/how-to-report-hong-kongs-election/#comment-29381 abde Tue, 09 Sep 2008 01:57:47 +0000 http://www.blackandwhitecat.org/2008/09/09/how-to-report-hong-kongs-election/#comment-29381 You know, just by covering the election, CCTV already made a huge exception. This is progress that should be congratulated. Besides, there are so many candidates and so many seats that CCTV couldn't have wasted more time on it when most of the nation wouldn't be affected at all by this. Most of the audience wouldn't have even heard of any of the candidates. Did you want CCTV do a bio on each of the candidates so people would actually know who is who and their campaign issues? Or short of CCTV promoting the superiority of democracy, nothing is acceptable to you? You know, just by covering the election, CCTV already made a huge exception. This is progress that should be congratulated. Besides, there are so many candidates and so many seats that CCTV couldn’t have wasted more time on it when most of the nation wouldn’t be affected at all by this. Most of the audience wouldn’t have even heard of any of the candidates. Did you want CCTV do a bio on each of the candidates so people would actually know who is who and their campaign issues? Or short of CCTV promoting the superiority of democracy, nothing is acceptable to you?

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