08年5月17-18号的SMH报导，澳洲国立大学的Pro Geremie Barme无耻攻击温总理(页 1) - 心情灌水 -

08年5月17-18号的SMH报导，澳洲国立大学的Pro Geremie Barme无耻攻击温总理

Geremie Barme, professor of Chinese history at the Australian National University在SMH 5月7-18号周末版
[url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/rising-to-the-challenge/2008/05/16/1210765174210.html?page=2]http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/rising-to-the-challenge/2008/05/16/1210765174210.html?page=2[/url]
无耻地攻击温家宝总理是在作秀。他的邮箱是[email=geremie.barme@anu.edu.au]geremie.barme@anu.edu.au[/email],请大家发邮件去声讨。


“Geremie Barme, professor of Chinese history at the Australian National University, who passed through the Tangshan area two weeks after the 1976 earthquake, said the political manipulation of horrific tragedy has deep roots in China.

He said China's party-state had an extraordinary ability to mobilise after disasters such as the devastating floods of 1991. But it always puts on a kind of show he called "performative revolutionary humanitarianism".

"People have responded generously to this vast human tragedy but many are also aware that the party is 'zuo xiu', that is, 'putting on a show' for mass consumption," Barme said. "There's a tradition reaching back into dynastic times in which power-holders display their virtue through great shows of munificence through disaster relief," he said.

"Equally, there's a deeply held popular belief that natural disasters are brought on by the moral decay of the society and the political corruption of their leaders."
A strong element of zuo xiu was apparent in Premier Wen Jiabao's activity, along with pragmatic questions of accountability that swept aside the normal political inhibitions and the sheer impractibility of keeping such a disaster under wraps in a country of half a billion cellphones and 200 million internet users.
And like the January snowstorms - in which Wen also went out to give "on-the-spot guidance" - the earthquake hurt the people on whose hard labour China's economic miracle is founded: the Sichuan villagers whose young women hunch over sewing machines and circuit boards in coastal factories and whose menfolk build China's instant cities leaving their children at home with grandparents.

Already a volatile element because of poor working conditions, low pay (often in arrears), makeshift housing and limited access to medical and welfare services, the estimated 140 million migrant-worker population is a constituency the authorities have to placate.
There was an attempt at old-style news management. Within half an hour of the quake being registered, the Communist Party's Propaganda Ministry was telephoning editors at the more adventurous media groups, telling them to take news from CCTV and Xinhua and not send reporters.”

我今天中午看到Sydney Morning Herald周末版的报导后就马上发邮件质问该Geremie Barme教授，稍后他回复了我邮件，回复信件如下：

Dear Michael:

Thank you for your note.

I'm afraid that, as usual with articles such as this, in which one might be quoted, the larger context of one's remarks are not give.

Naturally, I pointed out Wen Jiabao's extraordinary and uplifting activities during this tragedy (one, by the way, that has touched on friends of mine in Sichuan). My remarks were given in response to queries from on-the-ground journalists asking why local officials had diverted energy and attention from the major rescue mission to produce media footage or highlight government officials.

This does not come across in the article, or in the context in which I am quoted (note that the quotation and comment about Premier Wen is not from me).

You might like to refer to my earlier guidance to a journalist when they were trying to understand Wen Jiabao's philosophy in 2006. See,

‘How books and learning reveal mind of a man who will shape future’, 6 September 2006, The Times, online at:
[url]http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article629275.ece[/url]

Yours sincerely,
Geremie Barme


虽然SMH的文章有断章取义，只选取Geremie Barme部分评论的嫌疑，但是SMH和该教授在全国人民奋力抗灾的时候发出如此不负责任，扰乱民心的新闻是很值得鄙视的。希望爱国以及有时间的同学打电话去SMH投诉一下。

经过今年这么多事情,或许大家都该发现了,对于一些事情无论中国有什么样的态度,采取什么样的做法,总是会引起别国的非议. 欲加之罪何患无辞.:monkey20

[quote]原帖由 [i]Justea[/i] 于 2008-5-18 00:22 发表 [url=http://bbs.ozchinese.com/redirect.php?goto=findpost&pid=2526256&ptid=156072][img]http://bbs.ozchinese.com/images/common/back.gif[/img][/url]
经过今年这么多事情,或许大家都该发现了,对于一些事情无论中国有什么样的态度,采取什么样的做法,总是会引起别国的非议. 欲加之罪何患无辞.:monkey20 [/quote]


“我不许你这么说!”——联合国新闻发言人玛丽·厄泽女士今天严词驳斥了某西方记者以所谓“新闻自由”抨击中国抗震救灾的言论。

在全国人民奋力抗灾的时候，这些西方所谓的“人权”卫士更多的是在搞破坏，如果当时我在场的话真得上去给他们几拳。

:monkey1