[concerned about politics]

Rupert Murdoch, chief executive of News Corp. is so sad, but he has "no choice."

[Enlightiator]

Earlier this year, James Murdoch, his younger son and head of operations for News Corp in Asia, pleased the Chinese authorities with strong criticism of the outlawed mystic movement, Falun Gong.

This wasn't just a coincidence. So lets see, AOL Time Warner and Murdoch's News Corp get a cable channel in a restricted area in Guangdong province, right across from Hong Kong which already broadcasts more open channels, while the Peoples Republic of China, aka Big Brother PRC, gets a China Central Television channel that will "be widely available in the US." As Orwell says in Animal Farm, we are all equal but some are more equal than others...

Big Brother PRC, coming soon to your cable network, courtesy of the US Big Brothers, The Megamedias.

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[July 4th]

I've seen China Central TV before. You can currently get it in the US with some fairly simple satellite equipment. It's not a blatant propaganda machine (you know, movies about the revolution and such) - it's more dangerous than that. They have their news stories, and they present their side as fact. Some idiot watching the channel that has no idea its run by the commies will probably think he's watching a normal newscast.

The channel's already here. There's no way it will get on regular cable systems though...the systems are maxed out. I've always suspected it would be on digital cable eventually. Looks like we're closer to reality than I had hoped.

[July 4th]

The question is, who the heck will make up the 'new viewer' target of the Chinese? If you're an average American, why get your news from some Chinese guy 8,000 miles away? Jim down at the engine factory isn't going to watch it when he comes home from work. Most if not all Chinese-Americans know darn well who it's controlled by, and they'll stay away, regardless of the language it's in. And the people who want to watch it can already get it.