Human Rights Report

Saturday, January 15, 2005-10:46 AM


The news from Hong Kong yesterday had a story about that group Human Rights group in New York that issues a report about which countrys were the greatest human rights violators over the past year.

A few seconds after the reporter came to the part about China, the program suddenly cut to a commercial. After a single commercial, the news returned with the anchor this time in the middle of the next story.

An hour later, another news program came on, and they eventually got to the same story about human rights violators. First they talked at length about the U.S. Then, they came to China. I was surprised that it wasn't immediately interrupted.

I don't know if the censor was sleeping and then just woke up, but just as I heard the reporter say something about China and Sudan and being "criticized for using its veto power", the TV cut to another commercial.