Eerie, shocking, daring, thrilling and mesmerizing, The Manchurian Candidate will leave youbreathless (People)! Featuring an all-star cast, including Angela Lansbury in an Oscar�(r)-nominated performance, this chilling and controversial (Leonard Maltin) film may be the most sophisticated political satire ever made (Pauline Kael). When a platoon of Korean War G.I.s iscaptured, they somehow end up at a ladies garden club party. Or do they? Major Bennett Marco (Frank Sinatra) can’t remember. As he searches for the answer, he discovers threads of a diabolical plot orchestrated by the utterly ruthless Mrs. Iselin (Lansbury) and involving her war hero son (LaurenceHarvey), her senator husband (James Gregory) and a secret cabal of enemy leaders.

You will never find a more chillingly suspenseful, perversely funny, or viciously satirical political thriller than The Manchurian Candidate, based on the novel by Richard Condon (author of Winter Kills). The film, withheld from distribution by star Frank Sinatra for almost a quarter century after President Kennedy’s assassination, has lost none of its potency over time. Former infantryman Bennet Marco (Sinatra) is haunted by nightmares about his platoon having been captured and brainwashed in Korea. The indecipherable dreams seem to center on Sergeant Raymond Shaw (Laurence Harvey), a decorated war hero but a cold fish of a man whose own mother (Angela Lansbury, in one of the all-time great dragon-lady roles) describes him as looking like his head is “always about to come to a point.” Mrs. Bates has nothing on Lansbury’s character, the manipulative queen behind her second husband, Senator John Iselin (James Gregory), a notoriously McCarthyesque demagogue. –Jim Emerson

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Jag har fått tag på en anti-cnn sida där kineser som känner sig kränkta av CNN och västerländska medier där man ger sin syn på hur väst försöker trycka ner Kinas utveckling, även om det är partiskt så är det mycket intressant att läsa tycker jag. De påstår att dollar-fallet och medföljande börsras har störst konsekvenser för Kina och det är därför USA inte gjort mer för att stoppa det. Ni kan se filmen själva här.

Samtidigt såg jag dokumentären om Tibets befolkning på SVT gjord av en Tibetan som intervjuar folk med dold kamera under tre månader. Även den är ju väldigt partisk men han kan ju knappast hitta på dessa läger där man tvingar nomader att “civilisera” sig i. Bostadsområden mitt ute i ingenstans där de tvingas bo samtidigt som poliser bevakar området. Järnvägslinjen som byggdes mellan Beijing – Lhasa är också ett exempel på hur Kina försöker få Han-kineser att flytta in i Tibet och kinesifiera (jo det är ett ord) Tibet. Länk till den dokumentären finns här

An anderer Stelle habe ich schon einmal darauf hingewiesen: Die Olympischen Spiele sind eine Bühne und die Einwohner des globalen Mediendorfs die Zuschauer. Das Ringen um Medaillen und Ruhm wird begleitet von einem sinistren Kampf der KPC um den Sessel des Regiesseurs, um die Hoheit, das Stück auf ihre eigene Weise zu inszenieren und zu deuten:

Während die chinesische Regierung die Auslandspresse im eigenen Land zensiert und ihre eigene Bevölkerung in einem akuten Anfall von Nationalismus gegen diese aufwiegelt, berichten westliche Medien umso intensiver über die Proteste. Dabei haben sie den nicht immer ganz einfachen Job zwischen Wahrheit und Lüge zu unterscheiden. Doch der Versuch der Kommunistischen Partei Chinas (KPC) im eigenen Land eine Oper aufzuführen, in der der Nationalismus das musikalische Leitmotiv ist, scheint zu fruchten: Wie der Focus meldet, werden die Korrespondenten in China via E-Mail und Telefon beschimpft und beleidigt. Man nimmt es etwa spiegel.de übel, ihre Nachrichten (ebenso wie N24, n-tv, RTL und – Überraschung! – Bild.de) als scheinbaren Beweis chinesischer Gewalt mit nepalesischen Polizisten, die Protestierer festnehmen, bestückt zu haben. Dabei scheuen sie keine Mittel und zitieren gar den ollen Goethe. Die volle Härte der chinesischen Wut, die von der Regierung entzündet, aber vom vom großen Nationalstolz der Chinesen genährt wird, trifft aber CNN. Der amerikanische Fernsehsender soll Fotos retuschiert haben, woraufhin dieser sich mit durchaus berechtigten Argumenten verteidigt hat. Der Ärger der Chinesen ist inzwischen so groß geworden, dass eine Gruppe Studenten eine Anti-CNN-Seite gegründet haben; quasi als ihre eigene Berichterstattung zum Thema.

Aber der Blinde sollte letztlich niemandem erklären wollen, wie der Himmel aussieht.

It’s glad to know that CNN has realized the tremendously negative publicity it had earned itself over the Internet recently, and it has abandoned its usual “keep silent” way of dealing with credibility charges by putting out a statement clearing itself on its Tibet coverage, which had been criticized for distorting facts and taking side by many bloggers and news agencies all over the world. The pressure must have been huge that CNN the experienced defendant against credibility accusations (number speaks, googling “CNN lies” returns 653,000 results, more than double of the 305,000 results for “Spitzer prostitution”, the hottest news this year) has to respond.

As a witness of the false reports from CNN, I recognize the effort CNN makes to polish its tainted image, however, I can only find the statement in whole an evasive piece trying to make excuses, and I feel pity for CNN again being such a dishonest and unapologetic agency.

Taking a quick look at what CNN has to say, one will find CNN’s excuse for cropping picture laughable. Web based publication has great deal of freedom in presenting multimedia materials including pictures. CNN could have posted the picture in its entirety while moving text to the rest of the area without any trouble at all. Web pages are not printed materials, resizing and reframing paragraphs are virtually costless and effortless. In fact, after being attacked for cropping the picture, CNN modified the page to put a zoomed out version of the entire original photo, without having to move text format at all. Then why did CNN need to crop it in the first place? Also, CNN argues in the statement that the picture was captioned “Tibetans throw stones”, then by what motive would a rational editor crop out the exact part of people throwing stones? No excuse can possibly be found to justify the discrepancy between what CNN did and what CNN claims.

Besides, CNN’s factual mistakes are not limited to the picture or calling Tibet as a country. During its TV airing until as late as March 21st, when multiple sources had confirmed Tibet riot violent and deadly, CNN anchors repeated called Tibetan turbulence a “peaceful protest”. It was exceptionally misleading and was a major distortion of fact. Even after www.anti-CNN.com had published the mistakes of CNN and other news outlets, Lou Dobbs of CNN continued to use the same wrong descriptions in his TV program. Even an unprofessional team would not be a strong excuse to make up for this.

CNN also repetitively refused to identify the dead as victims of the riot, and in their context spread the impression that they were protesters left dead by government actions, while in fact, they were murdered by those CNN-called “peaceful protesters”.

CNN’s distortions and lies are not sparse editorial or technical mistakes. They are consistent and still on-going, in favor of one side of the story.

In addition, CNN has in its reports repetitively excluded Tibetan ethnics from the Chinese. This is unacceptable. It is just similar to calling African American and Caucasian American as Blacks and American.

While the German news agency RTL had quickly acknowledged and apologized for its mistake after www.anti-cnn.com pointed it out, professionals in journalism at CNN still refuse to acknowledge mistakes and redeem trust. I have to say, the denial issued today was just a weak and pathetic attempt to weasle away from the systematic lying campaign CNN had conducted in the past weeks.

Według wydawanej w języku angielskim gazety, na stronie opublikowano list przeciwko “zachodnim mediom Goebbelsa”, czyniąc aluzję do nazistowskiego ministra propagandy. W środę list nie był już dostępny na anty-CNN.

“Naród chiński, miłujący pokój, wyrafinowany i wykształcony, od dawna jest upokarzany i znieważany. Nie może dłużej pozostawać milczącym jagnięciem” – napisano w liście, którego autorzy apelują do czytelników, by kontaktowali się zachodnimi mediami i domagali od nich przeprosin.

Jak napisano, amerykańska CNN to “światowy lider kłamców”, ale na światło dzienne należy też wyciągnąć błędy innych mediów – niemieckich, brytyjskich czy francuskich.

W środę Pekin – po raz pierwszy od rozpoczęcia zamieszek w Lhasie 14 marca – zezwolił ok. 10-osobowej grupie zagranicznych dziennikarzy na wjazd do Tybetu. Pekin zorganizował reporterom planowany na trzy dni objazd rejonu – podała agencja AFP. (PAP)

ANTI-CNN 

The latest legs of the torch relay through Argentina, Tanzania, Oman, Pakistan and India faced few disruptions. The implementation of increased security presence and scaled down routes prevented further scuffles. In Islamabad, Pakistan, the torch never left a sports stadium. In Delhi, India, no exact times for the relay were given, roads were closed off, and office-workers were told not to look out their windows.

Western correspondents in these countries have described the atmosphere as “hostile”, claiming that the mutilated relays left no-one entirely satisfied and the Olympic spirit rather tarnished. Despite still facing criticism from the West, Chinese officials will be relieved that tensions have died down with just under half the international destinations of the relay remaining.

Nevertheless, the big Western media organisations are still taking a fervent interest in the matter. The likes of CNN and BBC have come under sharp criticism from Chinese audiences around the world for what they call biased reporting. A group of Chinese media watchdogs have even started Anti-CNN, a site on which inaccuracies in Western media reports are spotted and pointed out. Under increasing pressure, CNN has attempted to convey the Chinese perspective on the issue: