Burma

I have a project on television news reportage of China that over the last month has captured a large amount of the coverage of the protests and crackdown in Burma. It has been difficult to see the coverage dry up just as the Burmese government’s action became most severe. The news media is critical to the viability of global campaigns like that fighting for change in Burma, and the news media clearly know this, but the mechanisms of daily and 24 hour news and its ultimate goal of delivering the news as a product, is adverse to its own political possibilities. By way of a response, I have started uploading all the material I have on Burma in chronological order to a video sharing website. It forms a kind of account of the protests and their suppression. The website is here.