2. Free Tibet is a movement created by people
outside of China and Tibet calling for the China
to grant back Tibet it’s autonomy.
There are many organizations that support the
Free Tibet movement such as Students for a
Free Tibet.
3. It has become a hot issue because the media
has jumped on the bandwagon and given
this issue a lot of coverage recently because
of a series of recent self-immolations and
other acts of defiance that happened in 2008.
Also the religious undertones in both of
these events.
4. Media can shape the way we think about an
issue and can really drive a nation into action.
As consumers of media we have to be very
careful to find the whole story and see the
biases in writing and video. This presentation
analyses some articles about this issue and tries
to get the overall feeling of the media about
this topic.
5.
6. This is what the majority of the articles I
researched mentioned. The author’s of these
articles all seemed to be aghast that people were so
desperate to free there nation that they would burn
themselves alive. From reading all of these articles
a reader can sense an anger at china for creating
the circumstances that someone would actually kill
themselves to get a message across. This is
probably why this was such a catalyzing news
story because death brings up many negative
emotions, these negative emotions were then
associated with the Chinese government.
7.
8. Another issue that appears in these media sources
over and over again is the so called innocence of
the Tibetan people and the country as a whole.
Western culture as a whole views Tibet as a
wonderland filled with magical places and
mysterious people. In class we referred to several
different movies that represented this very fact
such as Ace Ventura. Of course writers from the
west would be as affected from this view point as
our class was, so this would be another reason
why Free Tibet has blown up. This article sums up
this stance in a nut shell.
9. In the articles the overarching theme was anger
at the Chinese government for there reactions
to events that have come up. Such as the
protests in 2008 in which many people were
killed by Chinese officers. Other protests have
usually ended in the same result. It seems that
the authors feel that the Chinese government
has been very unjust in there dealings with
Tibetans and Tibetan Buddhism.
10. Many Tibetan religious leaders were forced out of
Tibet when China took over rule so many years
ago. These exiled monks have been great
spokesman and advocates for the freedom of Tibet.
One of these exiled monks is the Dalia Lama. He
has one of the most famous and recognized names
in the world. His name comes with a mystic to
westerners that he is a very wise man and should
be respected. Some of the articles mentioned his
exile in terms of it being a bad thing and that the
Chinese government is wrong to be enemies with
the Dalai Lama. The Dalai Lama can almost be
viewed as the figurehead for the Free Tibet
movement in the media.
11.
12. If the Free Tibet movement has so many
supporters. Why has nothing been done? One
article hit it on the head, but other articles
implied it, fear. Fear of reprisal from China for
interfering. The U.S. is 1 trillion dollars in debt
to China and many other countries are in the
same boat. Authors have implied the whole
time that China is a bully nation that is just
picking on the little kid Tibet for his lunch
money.
13. I found only one article maybe not in favor of
Tibet’s occupation by the Chinese, but which
gave pros that have happened since the
occupation. One of these is that Tibet’s
economy has boomed since China took over.
The author of this article is obviously
impressed by the numbers surrounding Tibet’s
economy, but he also alludes to China’s
blunders in dealing with Tibet. He is impressed
by China’s plans to modernize Tibet and is also
encouraged by the amount of money China has
pumped into Tibet’s economy.
14. Chicken Shape might be one of the reasons for
China to keep occupying Tibet says hoax article.
15. After weighing the view points of all the
authors of these articles I came to the
conclusion that they are all in favor of the Free
Tibet movement. Almost all of the authors
thinks that China’s rule has yielded nothing,
but pain for Tibet. One author thought that the
economic boost in Tibet’s economy was one
thing China did to help Tibet. The other
authors with this same information may have
the same opinion. All in all it seems the media
is totally in favor of the Free Tibet movement.
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