From: hhwu@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (eric.wu)
Subject: World Journal
Organization: AT&T
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 18:18:30 GMT

In article <ljcai7INNoh6@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> stlin@stevelin.Eng.Sun.COM (Steven Lin) writes:
>
>In the late 70's the World Journal was based in Hong Kong and owned by Hong Kong
>finance group. The United Daily News of Taiwan took over and then the news 
>publication was reorgnized. Instead of reporting Hong Kong news only, the World
>Journal expanded to report: world news, Taiwan news, mainland news, Hong Kong
>news, and south east Asia Chinese community news. It has published over 40 some
>pages since then. In Chinese news publication, it is number one in the US 
>Chinese reader market.

China Times was also published in the US for a period of time.  Can 
someone refresh my memory on how its owner got little Jiang mad at
him and had to stop?

>
>Though the owner is a KMT, the WJ apparently has no dedication to KMT. Though
>it is emphasized on Taiwan news, it is not a pro-KMT newspaper in general.
>

My impression is quite different: Not only that WJ is biased toward KMT,
it is biased toward a certain faction of KMT.  The next is one of my
recent observations.

While I was trying to find out what was going on with the land tax and
Wang Jian Shuen, I read the WJ carefully for many days.  According to
WJ, Wang is a Saint who would fight to his death to right the wrongs in
Taiwan.  He was betrayed by the Present and he could not carry out what 
he planned to do and had to resign.  Until today, I still don't know 
what happened because I really don't know how much to trust what I read. 

I subscribe to WJ to keep in touch with Taiwanese affairs (and hone 
my skill of reading between the lines) and the "Fu Kan" is not bad.  

>
>Recently, the TIers in Taiwan accused that the United Daily and World Journal
>as a message passer of People's Daily. No matter what the accusation was, is
>there any basis to say so?  Isn't that funny to say so?  Or TIers just try
>to blacken everything that does not work in the same line as TIers want to be?
>
UD and WJ never try to hide their staunch anti-TI stance.  If they can
use PD to serve their purpose, it's too bad to the TIers.  Life is not
fair and never will, especially for those who dare to voice different
opinion.  I wouldn't call WJ a message passer for PD though.  WJ is so 
inconsistent in quoting different sources while reporting on China,
very often in the same section we can see one article kissing CCP's
behind and another that can be suited for slander.  I guess this is 
neutral journalism to some.

Before 1/1/92, I would say "China Times Weekly" was the most readable
publication for Taiwanese.  By readable I mean not much mental 
correction is required.  But since the re-direction of that magazine, 
I now consider it a communist running dog.  It mainly reports on China 
and Hong Kong and for foreign names it only uses China's translation.  
I expect it to be published in simplified characters soon.  (As you 
can see, I am very ****ed about this change but this is a very neutral 
and totally unbiased opinion.)

>
>If WJ is a pro-CCP newspaper, I would think that there is no newspaper in 
>Chinese community is a neutral one. What do you think?

Sometimes I wonder if we have enough clean minds left to publish 
a "reporting the facts only" newspaper in our generation.  The 
journalism of our major newspapers is not very respectable.  Too 
many commentaries are reported as news, even when the reporters 
didn't mean to do so.

Eric
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