It is well known that Chinese Communism Party has a department called Chinese Communism Party Central Propaganda Department. This department decides what to say and what not to say, all media organizations are controlled by such department. As usual, for this earth quake, the department sent commands to media organizations around the mainland China asking them to use only news from the Central TV station and the XinHua News agent.
But this time, almost all media organizations simply ignored the commands from the Central Propaganda Department, and sent journalists out to the earthquake zones.
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not only google turned its logo into black colour, many sites in china turned their colour schemes to black and gray as well:
http://tech.azuremedia.net/2008/05/19/1388/ |
According to Google China Blog, it is the first time Google turned its logo to black and white to express condolence to victims in major hazards.
http://googlechinablog.com/2008/05/blog-post_4038.html
Translated version:
http://google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgooglechinablog.com%2F2008%2F05%2Fblog-post_4038.html&hl=en&ie=UTF8&sl=auto&tl=en |
(I added an update to the end of the post.) |
Al Jazeera writes:
<<People across China have held three minutes of silence marking the exact moment one week ago when a deadly earthquake struck the southwestern province of Sichuan.
At 06:28 GMT on Monday the sound of car, train and ship horns, as well as air raid sirens, marked the beginning of the silence across the country.
With the toll from the quake standing at more than 32,000, China's leaders have declared three days of national mourning for the dead.>>
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/9A4B7BB8-EDE6-451E-85EA-CC3F8D89D91F.htm
They also write:
<<As the mourning period began on Monday, state media reported that more than 200 recovery workers had been buried by landslides over the past two days in the disaster zone.>> |
Google Taiwan (http://www.google.com.hk) also changed their homepage:
http://blogoscoped.com/files/google-taiwan-2008-19-05.png
Google Hong Kong (http://www.google.com.hk) is also using the white on black note. |
Philipp, I think you mean Google Taiwan (http://www.google.com.tw) . |
