The real meaning of freedom of press

When rulers want to hide their wrong-doing or corruption, it is certain that they would try to control any news to disclose. Therefore, freedom to report is important for the sake of the people.

Taking this point as a mean to raise discontent without a righteous cause is a political tool instead.

May be there is only two ways of reporting the earthquake now, either broadcasting the good things as CCTV or picking some selfish discontent of naïve people.

So the other date, ATV reported some people were discontent because the monument they had built at a damaged building where bodies of their children buried down below was broken down by authority.

For personal, it is certain that everyone will be sad and hope to do something to comfort their minds.

Just think about the whole picture, there are thousands bodies still buried down below the ruins. Most have relatives alive. If all of them want to set up a monument, there will be hundreds if not thousands around. These sites need to be clear and reconstructing will be arranged. This kind of thing will lead to chaos and add burden to the leaders.

Just take the 911 event, there were thousands buried under the collapsed towers, their relatives had not done anything like that. We may not like everything of American, yet their reasonable response is the reason that they can have selections. Yes, I am saying that since most Chinese are selfish in comparison, any such selection would be a disaster to the country. Of course, we can see what happened to America these years and it is certain that very system would have its drawback.

Without certain good quality, becoming rich will increase the degree of selfishness. That is the problem China will face in the future.

For the earthquake, we can see the freedom to report has highly appreciated. But it is a need to watch if such opening will give other countries a way to bring troubles instead.

當執政者需要隱藏他們的惡行或貪污等，他們一定會進行控制新聞以免被揭發。所以新聞自由對人民是非常重要。

利用來引起不滿而沒有正確的原因只是一種政治手法。

可能在今日報導有關地震的現況只有兩個方式，一是有如中央電視表揚救災的偉大事件或找一些無知的人選播他們的自私式不滿行為。

所以香港亞洲電視在前天報導了一些人士因他們在一個倒塌地點安裝的紀念碑被官方人員拆毀。
以個人來說，當然會是極之悲傷及希望做些事來感到安慰。

只需從大局面著想，仍有千計的遺體藏在瓦礫下。大部份都有親人在生。如果所有親人都要安裝紀念碑，將會有數百數千個。這些地點需要安排清理及計劃重建。這種做法只會引來混亂及加重領導們的負擔。

正如911事件，上千人被埋在倒塌的地底，他們的親人並沒有這種行為。我們可以不贊同美國的所有事件，但他們的理性態度正是他們可以有選舉制度的原因。對，我是指出由於大部份中國人在比較上是自私的，任何類似的選舉都會是國家的災難。當然在這些年間，可以看到美國的情況，證明任何選舉系統都有不足之處。

在欠缺正確的品質，富有起來是會增大自私的程度。這是中國在日後需要面對的問題。

在這次地震，我們看到被高度贊賞的新聞自由。但必須留意這種開放是否會成為外國給中國製造麻煩的機會。