media disinformation

What most media failed to report about the so-called “pro-democracy” protests in Hong Kong

Wei Ling Chua — Thu, 02 Oct 2014 10:36:29 +0000

What most media failed to report about the so-called “pro-democracy” protests in Hong Kong are:

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Hong Kong protests

Detective Job: Can you point out the flaws in this report?

Wei Ling Chua — Tue, 03 Jun 2014 06:56:45 +0000

This is an exercise for the public to learn how to distinguish between honest journalism and agenda based writing. Below is an embedded screenshot of an article on The New York Review of books (20 May, 2014) title ‘Tiananmen: How Wrong we Were’ by Jonathan Mirsky. (see screenshot evidence: attachment 1)

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Ethic of Journalism

Tiananmen Square Massacre

media lie

New York Review of Books

How BBC manufactured the perception of a "Massacre" without having to show their viewers a single chip of a dead person

Wei Ling Chua — Wed, 28 May 2014 12:17:23 +0000

Despite the 2011 WikiLeaks leaked US government cable and the 2009 confession made by BBC journalist James Miles that he had "conveyed the wrong impression" and that there was no one killed in Tiananmen Square in 1989. A simply search on BBC website using the term ‘Tiananmen Massacre’ will revealed that the BBC has continued to use the term ‘Tiananmen Square Massacre’ in all kind of occasions to demonise the Chinese government.

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media lie

No evidence to support Chen Guangcheng’s “beating” claims

Wei Ling Chua — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 11:04:18 +0000

From the outset, Chen seems to be just another Chinese dissident brutally treated by the authorities, however, there are more to that.

In the opening statement at the Council on Foreign Relation (31 May, 2012), Professor Cohen of the New York University made it clear that Chen “had never studied law” when “the State Department” asked him to meet Chen nine years ago (that is in 2003).

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media disinformation

International news and opinion

Ethic of Western journalism: The evolution of Chen Guangcheng’s “escape” stories

Wei Ling Chua — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 14:19:52 +0000

- 16 escape stories with only one that makes sense

The blind Chinese dissident, Chen Guangcheng has finally “escaped” the “brutal” treatment of the Chinese “regime” and landed in the “free” world. The world in particularly the American media called this a human rights win for America.

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human rights

media disinformation

International news and opinion

Creative censorship by Australian government funded media: The Conversation

Wei Ling Chua — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 10:21:57 +0000

I decided to put these incidents on public record for the benefit of the Australian society and to uphold the original purpose of the tax payer funded Internet media – The CONVERSATION.

The CONVERSATION is funded by the Australian government for the following purposes:

Who We Are: “We aim to be a site you can trust.”

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Media disinformation: Understand South China Sea standoff through the Filipino media

Wei Ling Chua — Wed, 23 May 2012 11:16:13 +0000

China is now Australia’s largest trading partner. Western Australia’s Premier is right to point out that: “… of the 60,000 new jobs created in Australia over the past 12 months, 50,000 were in WA, which now accounted for 70 per cent of the nation's exports to China … To some extent, the strength of the WA economy is concealing the true weakness of the national economy.” Therefore, it is in Australia national interest that our policy makers are able to understand China in an objective manner. I hope that the following article will contribute to such an objective.

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Bo Xilai, rumour journalism, Western prejudice and China’s Internet crackdown

Wei Ling Chua — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:25:32 +0000

- How rumour journalism works?

Chinese police have arrested six people and shut 16 websites after rumours were spread that military vehicles were on the streets of Beijing. Without factual verification, such unsubstantiated internet rumour has gone viral internationally as a sign of instability and power struggling in Beijing following the arrest of Bo Xilai last month.

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China’s Wukan protest and corruption - another side of the story

Wei Ling Chua — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 05:39:22 +0000

One of the major flaws with many western writers is that, there is a common lack of detail studied and understanding of policy development on the respective issues in the developing countries such as China: journalists and writers alike simply hop in and begin all kind of negativity against the Central government as and when an incident took place within some corners of the society.

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International news and opinion

Wukan Protest

Dalai Lama, Tibet and western media

Wei Ling Chua — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 05:54:42 +0000

China has often being misunderstood by the Western public due to factual distortion by Western’s journalists and writers. Bruce Gilley, an assistant professor of political science at Portland State University’s Mark O.

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Evidence of Murdoch’s newspapers distorting news to fuel racism

Wei Ling Chua — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 05:07:52 +0000

Media disinformation and negativity against non-Western cultures in Australia is a terminal disease spreading into the bloodstream of the mainstream media industry in Australia. The following incident demonstrated how easy it is to demonise a Chinese restaurant in Melbourne through the manipulation of news using the techniques of factual omission, misleading heading, misleading bullet-point-highlight, misleading bold-highlight and the editorialising of content using a series of subjective and strong wordings to sell the personal opinion of the journalist or editor as news.

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24 months on, International News Syndicate’s website still “undergoing redevelopment” – why?

Wei Ling Chua — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 07:06:58 +0000

This month marks the 2nd anniversary of the Australia News and Features Services (ANFS) website and International News Syndicate (INS) website putting up a statement:

“This site is currently undergoing redevelopment. We apologise for any inconvenience. It is, however, still business as usual for us here at International News Syndicate Limited. Please, simply contact us on admin@internationalnewssyndicate.com”

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International News Syndicate

Australia News and Feature Services

Outcast Journalist

Has the Australia Press Council protected media that violated its own written principles?

Wei Ling Chua — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 06:09:18 +0000

About The Australia Press Council

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More dodgy materials exposed - The Age and John Garnaut case continue

Wei Ling Chua — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 02:14:21 +0000

On 24 May 2010, I posted my 2nd report in regard to The Age and John Garnaut’s dodgy journalism case under the heading: “Media Accountability - The Age must say ‘Sorry’ to Australians”. As promised in the report, I then notify The Age Newsdesk, John Garnaut, Media Watch and Walkleys Foundation the following day (25 May 2010).

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Media accountability—The Age must say ‘Sorry’ to Australians

Wei Ling Chua — Mon, 24 May 2010 06:37:14 +0000

On the 12th May 2010, I filed a report under the heading: ‘Can we trust our media? The shocking behaviour of the Age’s Journalist, John Garnaut’. In this report, I describe how I uncovered the shocking behaviour of The Age’s Journalist John Garnaut in his report dated 9 May 2009 under the heading ‘Journey through an earthquake’.

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