Don't Watch This: Confucius
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Danwei points us to this new song by Beijing band DEFY, entitled "I don't watch CCTV" [the song is embedded after the jump because we couldn't turn off the auto-play]. Here's some of the lyrics:
I don't watch CCTVVery interesting lyrics, but we wonder if these guys chose to sing in English, and not Chinese for fear of censorship. Honestly we wouldn't have been able to understand them if not for the lyrics supplied by Danwei above, and even they weren't able to make everything out.I don't watch this fucking channel...
... Ai, I don't like you...
... CCTV, CCTV, CCTV
Fucking channel
Fucking channel
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Leave it to punk rock to state the obvious and intelligent self-reflection that is so much needed in China. Chinese can live in denial and keep blaming foreigners, or actually confront reality.
God save the Queen!
"So they have a royal peridot!"
"Push and pull its roiling nose"
I am an antichrist
I am an anarchist
Don't know what I want but
I know how to get it
I wanna destroy the passer- by cos I
I wanna be anarchy !
T: Those are great lyrics. I am going to put them to song right away.
there is already a youtube video for it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVGwvz_NJRk
does this song make you feel better when you watch CNN/BBC? hehe. very interesting!
does this song make you guys feel better? It has been a very popular phrase: "don't be like CCTV"(it means people should not ignore the truth). After Tibet riot, Chinese netizens change it into "don't be like CNN". So CCTV was the first one that was criticized by Chinese, not CNN.
Confront the reality? yes. it is very needed for Westerners. it takes a lot of courage to confess that your Western media is biased.
richardlee, thank you for the info on the history of the "don't be like CCTV" phrase.
I have a proposal for you: you try not to make big assumptions about what "Westerners" think and I'll do the same for what Chinese people think. I'm saying this because if you knew much about the US and Europe, you'd know that there's similar levels of deep distrust of major corporate media. Most Americans don't trust CNN, FOX and other major media outlets to be bias-free. That's the reality, all right? You know, we agree on a lot of things, including the fact that major media outlets, whether corporate or government controlled, have agendas that serve things other than the truth.
most? how do you know?
"Most" is accurate, I think, based on personal experience, but the thing is that people mistrust different news outlets. Right-wing Americans who were pro-Bush around 2001-2004 saw a "liberal bias" in "mainstream media" and rejected reporting from the New York Times and, often, CNN while trusting FOX news and other right-leaning media. Many urban college-educated Americans, however, see Fox as being horribly skewed to the right and take the New York Times, say, as a more reliable source while still recognizing that it's often compromised in various ways.
So yes, most Americans--and I'll limit myself to Americans, since America's what I know best--don't fully trust media outlets but, given the relative range of different media outlets in the US vs. the PRC, they trust some more than others, and it varies. But sure, when it comes to something like China, most Americans don't know enough in a first-hand sense to make much of a judgment and are prone to believe what they see on CNN or MSNBC or read in their newspaper.
My point is primarily that if you're Chinese and you believe that Westerners reflexively believe everything they see or read in Western media, you have a really distorted and inaccurate picture of how Westerners think about Western media.
I can only speak for myself, but as for believing the major media outlets, western or otherwise, I always take a skeptical view of what they're trying to sell. I weigh the reports from many different outlets to come to my own conclusions. I do not simply accept what one corporate media wh*re says as sacrosanct.