<DIV class=quote><B>以下是引用<I>ucla</I>在2005-4-3 13:37:00的发言:</B><br /><br /><br /><>This is not about death, this is about freedom of religion, about freedom of press, about "right of know the truth", actually pope can not do any thing to chinese, 'coz he cant even visit china ( the chinese administration oppse him to come), just a few mins ago I posted a message here that was excerpted from hk newspaper, but deleted by the admin.</P></DIV><br /><><br /><>I think one of take-aways from studying abroad for an MBA is everything has its two sides of coin, meaning the media in the west is no less biased than what many think. You rarely see news about what we back at home truly care about in the newspapers or other media in the US or here in UK. You don't have to blame CNN or BBC for partiality of coverage as they don't care about certain things happened in China except China's economic growth or something prohibited still in Chinese media(esp. some "bad" news).</P><br /><>As for Pope's death, I was also astounded by the days of coverage by BBC. Why did they do this? Number one reason, as far as I know from British media is Pope played a very important role in the collapse of Eastern Bloc. Purely based on this, I don't feel any need that 90% Chinese people with no religious belief have to be informed of this. For those Catholic practitioners, they already have their own channel to get the news and as a matter of fact they had masses in churches for such an event. So never fussy about anything Chinese and contribute more proactively may help build up what most of us expect, probably in the future.</P><br />