One advantage with journalists is they can articulate their opinions and ideas as facts. If you own a newspaper, it makes things slightly easier. If you are writing an article in academic journals, it is a good practice to mention about the funding agencies. In fact, it is mandatory sometimes. This might be a formality in most of the cases but it is very important in certain cases to put the discussion in perspective.
For example, in the study of social, political, and economic theories, the information about the funding agencies is quite critical not in establishing the ideas investigated in any particular article but to have a wider perspective of the motivation behind such investigations. How does it matter? Why the knowledge about motivation is important? The social, political, and economic theories (some scientific theories too!) depend on the framework over which you build theories.
If you start with Marxist theory, you might analyse a situation in a completely different manner compared to someone who starts with Capitalist ideas. Who is right? We do not know. If the framework is not the focus of an article, it is better to write a word about it. If you do not write it explicitly, then naming the funding agencies would help immensely to identify the framework.
For instance, Congress Party will probably never sponsor a project titled "Why Sonia Gandhi should not be in party committees?" just like how Chinese government will probably sponsor a project titled "Why Tibet, Arunachal Pradesh, etc., should belong to China?"
Naming the sponsor is important. But journalists can get away with that.
N. Ram visited Tibet in June 2007 along with four other Indian journalists (who are they? Read articles about Tibet in the coming days. You may come to know). He has written an article on Tibet. He has also warned that an article on the politics of Tibet would follow.
From the article (and loud thinking is in italics):
The world’s highest railway, Mr. Tsiren exulted, “has ushered in a new millennium for Tibet. It is the realisation of a dream of two generations, of great importance to the Tibetan people. It has greatly reduced the cost of transportation. We have taken one more step towards the modernisation of Tibet and the deeper integration of the regional economy with the Chinese economy.”
Deeper integration of the regional economy with the Chinese economy?? What is the difference between integration and occupation?
Taking the cue from ‘independence for Tibet’ propaganda, the romantics see the railway as the ultimate destabiliser of Tibet’s culture, religion, demography, and environment.
Independence for Tibet is a propaganda??
In a historical essay published in the New-York Daily Tribune in 1853, Karl Marx analysed the potential of the railway to end India’s “village isolation … this self-sufficient inertia … with a given scale of low conveniences … without the desires and efforts indispensable to social advance.” He famously predicted that “the railway system will … become, in India, truly the forerunner of modern industry” and, further, that “modern industry, resulting from the railway system, will dissolve the hereditary divisions of labour.”
We all know very well the importance of railways. Moreover, we also know how Indian railway system has dissolved the hereditary divisions of labour!!!
Apprehensions about the railway’s adverse effects on the environment and wildlife have proved exaggerated if not wholly baseless. The real threat to Tibet’s environment comes not from the railway but from global warming.
Blame the global warming for everything!! Thanks Global warming. We, humans, are using you nicely to our convenience.
That Tibet under the Dalai Lama-headed theocracy had no schools worth speaking about, and that the illiteracy rate was 95 per cent, are indisputable facts.
Similar story was told about Indians during British rule. Thanks Shri. Dharampal. We now know better. Such an illiterate country is also the storehouse of many Buddhist traditions.
The Chinese socialist system showcases the “fast, coordinated, and healthy development of education” in Tibet Autonomous Region as a solid achievement of liberation and especially of the post-1979 reform.
Oh! No. This is not a propaganda. Do not call the chinese action as propaganda!!
N. Ram also mentioned about wordly wise monks.
Thanks China. Thanks Ram.
With scrupulous respect for the language, culture, religious beliefs and constitutionally mandated autonomy of the Tibetan people, rising China is eminently capable of achieving the all-round development.
Hahahaha!!! Haha!!! That is not a joke. Please do not laugh. Listen to me. China do respect Tibetan culture. They do respect the cultural revolution. Do not laugh. Ram is not joking.
Let us wait for Ram's second article. The sponsor is the sponsored.
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