For the past a few days, international media have given significant coverage to the "umbrella revolution" in HK, the quality and quantity of which are way, way more than than the Sunflower equivalent in TW. The newest one we have here is Time Magazine s cover story.
As I began to ponder this issue, a few preliminary thoughts came to mind (they are prone to addition and correction though):
- HK simply has more established connections with international media, whereas in most part of the world, the knowledge about TW is masked by her own media opacity. Broken English and ruined media culture all have negatively contributed to that.
- The OCLP movement stands in a critical junction where the West considers a potential leverage to the democratization of China, whereas the chaotic democracy currently in operation in TW has kind of lost its strategic momentum to influence China, in terms of both the economy and PR value.
- The agenda of the OCLP movement is theoretically clear from the start-out, whereas the Sunflower movement had dragged for almost a week before it adopted this very name "Sunflower movement" for the wider public s reception. So how could the media know to say anything significant about the movement before it managed to fall into shape physically and metaphysically?
- The OCLP movement managed to provoke brutal police reaction in the first two days of its launch, which provides excellent headline pictures as we have seen featuring all those international media, whereas the Sunflower movement, despite its successful initial occupation of the parliament meeting hall, involves little explicit martyrdom that was deemed newsworthy per the industry, as we know the industry always prefers clash to propaganda.
- The media also have a penchant for any kind of "David vs. Goliath" heroic epics, which suitably capitulate what the OCLP movement is really about/against: the CCP totalitarian conglomerate.
In Taiwan, on the other hand, Mr. Ma is hardly that Goliath. The funny thing is: No one has even appointed him the Goliath s swordbearer, either. Rather, for the sake of the possible Xi-Ma APEC meeting he wittingly made himself one, which turns out to be so disgraceful and un-epic for news-storytelling:
David vs. Goliath s volunteering (and marginalized) swordbearer |
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