I understand that both countries will not allow most news stories to be broadcast from their shores, but these two stories are still the ones that need to be covered. There has been very few tragedies like what is happening in Myanmar, and the Earthquake in China is something which only happens once in a decade.
The Major News outlets insist that their viewers want to watch silliness, like the pandering to the Presidential candidates each supposed journalist do when interviewing them, or we are forced to watch the musing of people like Terry McCauliffe for the left, and Karl Rove for the right.
The saddest part is most of these people only talk about how their candidates stack up against the competition, or how their ideology is better than the other, we get very little substance from these types of people.
I am a fan of news all day, I watch the news channels more than any other channel. The slant and overall one sidedness however, is beginning to wear on me.
As I see it our news is always shone through the slant of the news agency, we very rarely get an unbiased collection of news stories.
MSNBC has been showing the ineptness of the American penal institution (as if anyone cares, except their far-left core of viewers who want to see why it's bad to have laws), it would be ok to have an expose' on it, but they show these programs like they are reality T.V. over and over and over and over, ad nauseum.
Fox likes to show what is popular to American conservatives, and CNN shows what is popular with American Liberals.
BBC shows news from an U.K. academic viewpoint, which instantly makes it more unbiased, but the news is still slanted toward their socialist views. They usually only show what will present their World-view in a proper light.
The worst has to be the CBC. Each and every news report focuses on social issues they deem as important for people to be thinking about. I have seen stories about what was supposed to be Chinese economics, and they turn it into a program of how the homosexual community is finding it's voice through economic policy in China. Not how the Chinese economy is exploding, as was advertised, but an old worn out argument from the seventies, of how Homosexuals are here to stay even amongst Chinese.
Most of the serious stories CBC runs, has this underlining theme of the homosexual world-view. They would call me a homophobe and dismiss my observations, but an observation is all that it is.
All of these slants are enough to make me sick, and realize we miss out on many real stories, because they do not 'fit' into the slant or 'position' of each outlets editor. Which brings me to why I am so frustrated with these news outlets.
I was reading an English news website from China, because of the little reporting done by our own news outlets I had to look for news on the Internet.
As I read the stories on this site, I was amazed at how little I knew of China and its day to day goings on.
Here are a few of the things I thought amazing, these stories had little or no coverage from our News Outlets.
1. China sent a man up in space in 2003, and has sent space craft up since only 1999. This is astounding when you think about how long it took the Untied States and Russia to perfect their technologies.
2. China has it's own Aerospace Industry, which has just launched a Jumbo Jet Company, and will rival Boeing and Airbus soon, if China trends of catching up continue.
3. This earthquake isn't the largest, as that was in 1976 when over 200,000 people died. Everyone in China look to this one as the big one and were well prepared for this one.
4. By the year 2012, Venezuela will be sending to China 1 billion barrels of oil per day. It is now 350 million per day. that is a 400 million dollar a day addiction, and this is only Venezuela's addition to China's massive oil consumption. How much do they get from OPEC, or African Nations?
5. 1.3 percent of China's GDP is allocated for Green Technological advances. This is a considerable amount of money.
6. Automobile manufacture and sales are the biggest growth Industry in China. There have been an increase from 514,000 sedans sold in 1995 to over 2.134 million this year. This is huge growth, considering the infrastructure for items such as these.
As I looked through these stories, it was obvious to me how little Westerners know or care about anything beyond their nose.
We are going to be overtaken in technology, advances in green energy technology (because of the need arising in China, it begs for solutions to be developed), goodwill toward the World (anytime you start spending massive amounts of money in a country, you will be held in high esteem within the country you spend it in), and most of all Social standing(China started out as a rogue Nation, but when they find solutions to the Tibetan problems and the Taiwanese situation, the world will be impressed) as the regular Chinese person has always been fascinating to Western thinking people.
I know that as Western Society continues its slide into stagnation, other ideologies will supplant it with respect to social growth, industry growth, and Political systems, but I thought it would happen slowly and way past my children's children time.
Because of our desire to only look at our own minutiae, I can see one of the Chinese languages becoming a sought after commodity soon, there are over 1.3 billion Chinese people, it's only a matter of time until it becomes a necessity for business.
While we in the Western World continue to cling to an outdated system of thinking English is a business language and give into Hollywood entertainment to satiate ourselves, the other parts of the World will be ahead of us in the understanding of learning from the Chinese, and be more open to the growth (financially and otherwise) which will soon be exported from China soon.
My frustration is, we are like that lobster which can be cooked without him knowing it, as long as you allow the water to boil slowly. I would hope we could at least watch and learn from the gains that places like China and India are making in everything from social reform, to language, but instead we are slowly losing footing in the world and do not even realize it.
It's fascinating to read their news and see how they are finding solutions to generation long problems.
I find Asia is strong in these area's, because they have chosen to humble themselves and integrate into their own systems of thought the lessons of Western Society, now it's our turn to integrate the lessons they are teaching.
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