Re: [Swprograms] CCTV International CCTV-9

[atlsvo@xxxxxxxxx (maryanne kehoe)]

Joe, many thanks for your response. Will all due respect, I must differ.
It's not a "private war" as you have put it, but it's a communication
rights issue that affects all of us as hobbyists. I have diligently
worked hard for the past 3 years on my platform of journalists' freedoms
to report, and China is one of the countries that does *not* give it's
radio people that freedom to disseminate info out of the country as they
see fit. *That* is the objection that I have to CCTV coming into the US
and setting up shop. Various organisations such as Reporters Without
Borders, and the Asia Desk of Human Rights Watch, plus the International
Sports Press Association have acknowledged the problems that are _still_
happening on the Mainland. 

At the conclusion of the 2004 Olympics, there was a call *again* for the
Chinese government to "keep to the promises they made in Moscow" 3 years
ago. This request was made by many human rights organisations all over
the world including Amnesty International in London. Also various rights
groups in Hong Kong have also acknowledged the Amnesty request. At the
2001 Fest, Rich and John graciously accommodated my request to place
literature on the "free table' about the communications-related issues
in regards to the 2008 Olympic bid (this was also the year we had
several CRI reps attend the Fest. They could have easily said no, said
something like "we would not want to offend or make these people
uncomfortable", but I presented reasons why I thought this info should
be available to hobbyists *to make up their own mind one way or
another*, (along with a disclaimer that this was not related to the Fest
in any way, which I agreed to do.) 

My point being, is we can *not* trust the Chinese.....period. Ever since
the Communists took over the mainland, every successive US President has
tried and tried to get the government over there to open up to no avail.
Despite what the Chinese say about having open lines of communication, I
bet one of my friends who would go to the mainland and try to do a story
about, say, the Falung Gong (among other concerns) would get quite a
cold reception----or worse.

I would much rather have BBC World, or DW TV or some other network on
the system that I know would give me a balanced view of things. CCTV is
no different.

It's not a "private war"----it's a _human rights issue_ that will only
get *worse* until we as hobbyists step up to the plate and hold China
accountable. 


Respectfully, 



Maryanne  




 
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Sender: swprograms-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx From:
joseph.buch@xxxxxxx(Joe Buch) Date: Fri, Oct 1, 2004, 7:59am To:
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Re: [Swprograms] CCTV International CCTV-9 Reply to:
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At 05:43 AM 10/1/04 -0400, Richard Cuff wrote: 
Should the US government block our access to RHC and CRI because Radio
Marti and RFA are jammed? 
We shortwave listeners would howl in protest. 
The FCC is doing exactly that. They are trying to get private industry
to operate a broadband, geographically dispersed series of jamming
transmitters mounted on telephone poles all over the country. The
jammers will use the power lines to conduct and radiate the jamming
signals into shortwave receivers at no cost to the government. As the
Brits would say, "brilliant". They call it BPL. We did howl. On October
14 I am afraid we will see that our howls have been ignored. That is
when the draft proposed BPL rules will be presented to the full
Commission for adoption. The scuttlebut from Washington is they will
only protect Coast Guard and air traffic control frequencies. I guess we
will all have to become utility DXers. 
I agree with you Richard. Anyone who does not want to watch CCTV or does
not want it coming into their homes can just not watch it or even set up
channel blocking to prevent it. Maryanne, please do not allow your
private war with the Chinese government to deprive others of the
opportunity to learn more about a people who will soon become either our
major ally or major opponent. I would prefer they become an ally but
that will require that we understand what they believe in and how they
think. There are always two sides to any dispute and the only way we can
expect to resolve such disputes peacefully is to engage in open
communications. That is what CCTV is attempting to do in my opinion. 
~*-.,_,.-*~'^'~*-.,_,.-*~'^'~*-., 
Joe Buch 
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