tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post3053180085132536207..comments2023-10-22T18:25:39.688+08:00Comments on The View from Taiwan: New Bloom's Brian H in WaPo on the Taiwan IdentityMichael Turtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974403961870976346noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-61224381894154304092017-01-06T13:40:41.816+08:002017-01-06T13:40:41.816+08:00"According to 林飛凡, WaPo article was desk reje..."According to 林飛凡, WaPo article was desk reject by the WaPo editor"<br /><br />Could anyone please produce a non-conspiracy point of view why WaPo editors would behave like that? A naïve person such as me would think that a newspaper editor should be interested in presenting a non-conventional, potentially sensational topic. Or is it because the editors think that they should follow the already framed public opinion?Ilyanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-82607076955230299232017-01-06T04:18:47.501+08:002017-01-06T04:18:47.501+08:00"According to 林飛凡, WaPo article was desk reje..."According to 林飛凡, WaPo article was desk reject by the WaPo editor"<br /><br />The authors of that article explained what happened in:<br />http://upmedia.mg/news_info.php?SerialNo=10147<br /><br />In short, the WaPo editor(s) first rejected it saying that promoting Taiwan Independence is not allowed, secondly they changed the title to "Taiwan wants One-China, but which one?" that is totally baseless. Only after negotiation did they come to agreement for the final title. <br /><br />The article also mentioned that some liberal journalists, like Max Fisher, questioned their poll data. <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-91761386769448474562017-01-05T14:19:35.923+08:002017-01-05T14:19:35.923+08:00Agreed on your conclusion.
Personally I believe t...Agreed on your conclusion.<br /><br />Personally I believe that the Taiwanese identity might have been settled long ago if there weren't martial laws and white terror. There might have been studies somewhere on my hypothesis. Sometimes I don't even know how western media approached this identity politics when some of them seemed to be oblivious about that the freedom of speech used to be nonexistent in Taiwan. There are many news reports full of facts and numbers yet lacking of a story that offers a convincing perspective.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-19365334671078698072017-01-05T00:53:15.056+08:002017-01-05T00:53:15.056+08:00Only trouble is, it's in the Washington Post w...Only trouble is, it's in the Washington Post which is getting a bad reputation. They <a href="javascript:void(0);" rel="nofollow">fake news</a> themselves.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-64789035018176028812017-01-04T00:25:37.227+08:002017-01-04T00:25:37.227+08:00According to 林飛凡, WaPo article was desk reject by ...According to 林飛凡, WaPo article was desk reject by the WaPo editor at first because the editor felt that it is promoting "Taiwan Independence". The authors explained that they were trying to write about result of survey and how it related to important issues about Taiwan and WaPo editor accepted the article on that basis. <br /><br />The authors of WaPo article did said that WaPo editor helped them with the rewrite so the final article is more clear and easy to understand.<br /><br />It is just very difficult to have "Taiwan centered" articles in international media. We needs to keep up the good fight. <br /><br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-44097360761314591022017-01-03T22:04:09.200+08:002017-01-03T22:04:09.200+08:00Innovative use of twitter on Mao's cultural re...Innovative use of twitter on Mao's cultural revolution:<br /><br />https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/01/the-best-twitter-account-i-followed-this-year/511868/<br /><br />It is painful to read but has huge emotional impact.<br /><br />We should do one for 228. Remind Taiwanese that it is better to fight the evil than to submit. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com