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by cynthia yoo | April 18, 2008 at 09:29 am
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One huge fall out from the Pro-Tibet protests is that the Chinese are renewing their love of country...and showering abuse on CNN.
Colleague Jordan calls it: "IM PR Warfare."
The mainstream media in China has lapped it all up. Shanghai's Dragon TV today claimed a whopping 5 million MSN users. And just as you're wondering where the hell they plucked that figure from, Xinhua today quoted a paltry 2.3 million MSN Messenger users, and even has a very authoritative source to back that up:MSN China spokesman Feng Guangshun released the figure on Thursday. Many more people have opened their MSN accounts to find a message which asked them to add the "red heart" and "China" in front of their signatures.
Feng said he expected the number of participants of this activity, which started Wednesday as a spontaneous patriotic campaign by Chinese Internet users, to raise dramatically in the following few days.
Watch what you put up as your nickname on MSN Messenger, boys and girls, 'cause Big Brother is watching (and counting).
UPDATE: Danwei adds that some users are now adding (U) CNN to their MSN nickname so that it now looks like this:
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at 12:27 on April 18th, 2008
I love buildings. Amazing how fast Shanghai has been growing in the last years. The image was taken with a plastic toy camera, and it's part of a recent body of work related to China.
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at 21:04 on April 18th, 2008
we love China, now and always.
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at 06:48 on April 19th, 2008
I love all people who love me.always.
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at 05:15 on April 20th, 2008
Loving China, Loving Truth!
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at 05:57 on April 20th, 2008
cynthia yoo, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 17:52 on April 20th, 2008
Unknown whether he was a secret service agent or just a supporter of the olympics, the gentleman pictured stood upon this bus for hours while watching the events at McCove Cove, San Francisco.
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at 09:07 on April 21st, 2008
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at 07:50 on April 22nd, 2008
It is time to awake our patriotic passion, and take practical action, I fully believe that all of Chinese people can beat those western unions, let us draw together....
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