News Literacy
Provisional Truth-assignment
En, Vicky, Hassah, & Hashem
Tiananmen Square
There is a small group of people in Beijing to create the unrest in on June 3, 1989. The students protests in front of the Tiananmen square and development of counter- revolutionary riots. The troops stationed around the city of Beijing were ordered to quell the riots. On the morning after four days, the martial law troops stationed in Tiananmen Square to clear the field at the same time, to quell the riots.
Timeline:
April 15, 1989 - Hu Yaobang, a former Communist Party leader, dies. Hu had worked to move China toward a more open political system and had become a symbol of democratic reform.
April 18, 1989 - Thousands of mourning students march through the capital to Tiananmen Square, calling for a more democratic government. In the weeks that follow, thousands of people join the students in the square to protest against China's Communist rulers.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tankman/cron/
May 19, 1989 - A rally at Tiananmen Square draws an estimated 1.2 million people. General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, Zhao Ziyang, appears at the rally and pleads for an end to the demonstrations.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/15/world/asia/tiananmen-square-fast-facts/
June 4, 1989 - At about 1 a.m. Chinese troops reach Tiananmen Square. Throughout the day, Chinese troops fire on civilians and students, ending the demonstrations. An official death toll has never been released.
June 1, 1999 - The National Security Archive publish” Tiananmen Square,1989: The Declassified History.” The archive includes U.S. State Department documents related to the events that took place during the demonstrations.
Summary and Facts
Many students protested for around three weeks after that a massacre happened. The chinese government's military started to kill the protests. One day after the massacre, unknown man with a white shirt and a shopping bag was seen standing in front of the tanks. He tried to stop them and have a conversation. However, still this incident a mysterious one and it is hard to investigate because it is one of the most taboo case in China that no one can talk about up to today. Furthermore, many new generation after that incident don't know about it unless someone from that day could tell them. Also, the government up to now hunts the protests from 6/4 incident.
I think the news not spread too fast after the even. As a Chinese, I heard my history teacher talk about the even when I was in high school. The information he told us was a little different, there was 3,000 students were killed in the Tiananmen Square. However, I can't search any students killed in the website. the government was close all the true in that time. We only know the news is the government want the audience know.
ReplyDelete• Did the reporters publish too fast?
ReplyDeleteI did not see the reporters reported too fast. What found is the event, Tiananmen Square tank man, deep. To understand it, a person needs to have a good knowledge and background about the system in China. There were more than two sides in the incident and because of that I needed to look more in the root of the problem.
• Was there information they should have included early on?
In fact, the reporters wanted to add more information, but they could not. The government contained the chaos and strike about it.
• Now that you know about the details of this story, what questions do you have for the journalists or anyone else that was involved? Write three.
The government of China was perfectly clear about prohibiting any kind of publishing anything about the 6\4 incident, so how could you find an opening to do it?
Was it worth to risk your life and write about it?
What difficulties did you face to collect evidences?
I don't think the news was publish too fast. People read news because they want to know what was new happen in the incident. Journalists just reported what was new they found in the incident, that’s what people want to know. I think the information should report about the government early on. Did the Chinese Government do something to prevent the protest happen? Also, what are other countries think about the protest? I think the journalist did a great job, because it was very hard to get the information from China, and it was 1989, internet technology was backward in China. I am wondering, where did the journalists get the source from? Did they got the news from the Chinese news paper? If the journalist was in China, how did he/she send the information back to US publish?
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