On CCTVDIALOGUE 12/02/2012 Regulation & Self-Regulation of Media, Yang Rui, CCTVNEWS anchor, Victor Gao Zhikai, current affairs commentator, and Michael Zhang, attorney at law, this troika were gathering in CCTV studio, talking widely about the conduct of media. Under the headline of Regulation & Self-Regulation of Media, there are many small captions: Legal & State Regulations to Curb Media Scandals, Media Self-Regulation Under Scrutiny, BBC Engulfed by Scandals, Freedom of Press at Stake, "The Sun" Sparks Media Debate with Prince Harry Photos, Paparazzi Vs. Serious Journalism, Public Concerns Over State Interference, Shadow of Pentagon Over Media Freedom, Julian Assange: Defender of Free Media or Sexual Abuse Suspect, New Media in Fighting Corruption, China Drawing Lessons from Western Media, etc.. Although Yang Rui himself is a member of journalism, he didn't touch his own behavior before the public. I am a small molecule of the so-called new media. I think I behave myself well when I am writing my blogs. But my blogs were often delayed several days or withheld from blog. sina. com. cn to blog. cntv. com. cn through blog-resettling. What is the regulation of the blog-resettling of blog. cntv.com.cn? I think they have double standards. They didn't control their staffs strictly. Two weeks ago, while I was watching a rebroadcasting program of CCTVNEWS, I was shocked by two or three minutes black screen. Afterwards, I found some white words in capitals on the black: IN MEMORY OF ZHOUQU EARTHQUAKE VICTIMS. I wonder where the host or the operator was? Did they allgo to the washroom? By the way, the new regulation of using pinyin in English for Chinese person's and address' names began to carry out on Oct. 1st this year. Why does LILY LYU, name of the anchor of CCTVBIZASIA still always spell LILY LU or LILY LV on CCTVNEWS ? Don't they know that they are making the mistake or that they are knowingly committing the mistake?
Here's Aristotle on self-discipline: Virtue, then, is of two kinds, intellectual and moral. Intellectual virtue springs from and grows from teaching, and therefore needs experience and time. Moral virtues come from habit.... They are in us neither by nature, nor in despite of nature, but we are furnished by nature with a capacity for receiving them, and we develop them through habit.... These virtues we acquire by first exercising them, as in the case of other arts. Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it: men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players, by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts we come to be just; by doing self-controlled acts, we come to be self-controlled; and by doing brave acts, we become brave... How we act in our relations with other people makes us just or unjust. How we face dangerous situations, either accustoming ourselves to fear or confidence, makes us brave or cowardly. Occasions of lust and anger are similar: some people become self-controlled and patient from their conduct in such situations, and others uncontrolled and passionate. In a word, then, activities produce similar dispositions. Therefore we must give a certain character to our activities...In short, the habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference. Moral virtue is a mean that lies between two vices, one of excess and the other of deficiency, and... it aims at hitting the mean both in feelings and actions. So it is hard to be good, for surely it is hard in each instance to find the mean, just as it is difficult to find the center of a circle. It is easy to get angry or to spend money-- anyone can do that. But to act the right way toward the right person, in due proportion, at the right time, for the right reason, and in the right manner-- this is not easy, and not everyone can do it. This much, then, is plain: in all our conduct, the mean is the most praiseworthy state. But as a practical matter, we must sometimes aim a bit toward excess and sometimes toward deficiency, because this will be the easiest way of hitting the mean, that is, what is right.
And then. the five chapters of life. Chapter 1: I walk down a street and there's a deep hole in the sidewalk. I fall in. It takes forever to get out. It's my fault. Chapter 2: I walk down the same street. I fall in the hole again. It still takes a long time to get out. It's not my fault. Chapter 3: I walk down the same street. I fall in the hole again. It's becoming a habit. It is my fault. I get out immediately. Chapter 4: I walk down the same street and see the deep hole in the sidewalk. I walk around it. Chapter 5: I walk down a different street.
