LETTERS: Focus on Beijing's tactics

If broadcasts from Tiananmen Square are prohibited, maybe it will help Western media put principle before profit and take a look at how they can help their fellow journalists languishing in gulags for daring to write the truth about what is going on in China ("Live Tiananmen Square broadcasts under threat," March 23, page 24).

Maybe they could find new ways to help the environmentalists imprisoned for trying to warn the world of environmental disasters that are threatening the planet. Or perhaps they could write about the missing human-rights lawyers who have tried to defend Chinese citizens who have lost their homes or those who have family members tortured to death for not giving up their spiritual beliefs.

Maybe they could write about how this brutal dictatorship profits from harvesting the organs of prisoners of conscience, the majority of which are Falun Gong members.

Maybe this ban will remind journalists of their true mission.

Sophia Bronwen

Vancouver, Canada