Learning More about Spin
Mar 17th, 2008 • Posted in: What They're Saying“The government is showing more confidence and learning more about spin. They’ve learned more PR tactics from Western people. They see the way the White House and the Pentagon do it.”
– Michael Anti, speaking to the Los Angeles Times about the Chinese government’s increasingly savvy spinning of news events like the current clashes between Tibetan monks, government forces, and local peoples. As the Chinese government faces increasing difficulties in wholly blocking information and coverage from the outside world, it is using videos, terminology, and propaganda to cast its opponents as attackers of the Chinese people, note observers like Anti, “a well-known Chinese blogger on a Nieman fellowship this year at Harvard,” according to the Times.
Source: Los Angeles Times, Mar. 17.
For more information, see: Los Angeles Times, Mar. 17 — New York Times, Mar. 17.
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