4/13    More biased journalism against our glorious workers'^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H
        capitalist paradise!  We do not repress our own population!  We do
        not arrest journalists!   Everyone is happy in China, and we hold
        spontaneous group sing-alongss to celebrate our good fortune and
        our beneficient leaders!  This is nothing but Western propaganda!
        "Rural Chinese Riot as Police Try to Halt Pollution Protest"
        http://csua.org/u/bot
        \_ I can only imagine how hellish the country side is given that I
           almost threw up just sitting in traffic in Shanghai.  The vehicle
           fumes were terrible and this was only in January.  We visited a
           rural tourist area and I'm sure it's pretty good by rural
           standards, but the people there still looked pretty damn desperate.
        \_ Yes Chinese media are still under wide censorship though state media
           for years have been reporting on corruption, pollution and other
           problems, often bravely testing, sneaking around, and pushing open
           orthodox limitations; yes freedom to assembly in China is still an
           illusory dream although demonstrations are becoming quite common.
           If you think censorship is wrong, I fully agree with you.  I also
           think it is a shame that most western journalists so readily succumb
           to the worship of ego, money, power and their own tunnel vision,
           when in theory they are so far from real peril or hardship.
           But if you are just bearing a grudge because your own dirty laundry
           is being aired, you deserve to live in North Korea.  And if all the
           junk news you are fed with causes you think mainland China today is
           a rigid society where everybody dance in unison everyday to one dear
           leader, your closed mind is just wasting away.
           \_ No!  There is no censorship!  There is no corruption!  We are
              free to assemble!  And we burst out in song to sing praises of
              the party (in scenes oddly reminiscent of a '50s musical)!  You
              have been systematically misinformed by your biased Western
              media that put a negative spin on everything about China!
              \_ Woah! It's llorTmocihC!