Saturday, September 6, 2008

A brainwashing propaganda disguised as news


中華聯合數位映像(NOWnews): 馬總統愛心認購月餅促銷並分送全國166所原住民學校(2008/09/05 22:42) 馬總統不只是買水果,幾天前他還買了四千兩百盒月餅分送給弱勢團體。"拚了!馬訂購8400盒月餅,分送弱勢。"

"屏東縣獅子鄉丹路國小全校五十名學生,拿到馬英九總統夫人周美青送的月餅,這些小朋友都捨不得吃,直說要等爸媽回家再吃。"

"拿到總統夫人周美青送的月餅,丹路國小小朋友好高興。"
"美青阿姨送愛心月餅,丹路學童驚喜。馬總統不只是買水果,幾天前他還買了四千兩百盒月餅分送給弱勢團體。"
記者王宗銘/台北報導

Since this is labeled: 記者王宗銘/台北報導, it presented itself as a news report. But if it were really a news report, it should not have had a title like '馬總統愛心...'. It might be true that Ma bought 四千兩百盒月餅分送給弱勢團體, but 記者王宗銘 could never know that this was out of 愛心. Knowing Ma, it was more likely a show with no sincerity and is done completely at the tax payers' expenses. 愛心 in the title immediately disqualify the writeup as news.

This NOWnews news report serves to explain why Wonderlanders cannot easily tell the differences between news and opinions. This in turn explains why our Wonderland has a long way to go to become civilized.

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