In the eyes of farmers, their land is like life itself, painstakingly farming and protecting the land. Sadly, they are sometimes faced with terrible treatment. In order to develop Jhunan Science Park, MiaoLi County government located in central Taiwan, plan to expropriate the farmland in Dapu. The government valued the land using the government assessed and publicly announced land value of the price, a sum of money that falls far below the market value. Some local farmers do not want to accept this expropriation order and naturally unwilling to hand over land rights.
The offensive phrase is a quote from China's state-owned media from way back in 2000, but the quotation marks in CNN's headline did little to take away from its declarative nature which, in the context of the terrible reporting on Taiwan, demeans the country as well.
Dan Rather和這次事件，都是由保守派的blog發起，而當這次blog開始報導後，也是由保守派的主流媒體開始跟進攻擊---因為CNN是美國自由派的媒體代表......但是這當然不能正當化媒體記者對於blogger的敵視。目前的確已經是一個全新的時代：權力與資訊正在逐漸去中心化，主流媒體與一般公民的關係正出現巨大的權力轉變。
