The China Daily is reporting that Chinese nationals living overseas are launching campaigns to highlight what they perceive as Western media bias. The West, they say, is distorting the Tibet situation to hurt China.
As well as a letter-writing campaign in Britain aimed at stopping Gordon Brown from meeting the Dalai Lama, new websites and forums have sprung up seeking to turn the spotlight on instances where the media has gotten it wrong.
Among them is www.anti-cnn.com which gives several examples of how websites in the US, Britain, Germany and France have mistakenly identified Nepalese and Indian police as Chinese military. They also provide original photographs which they say were cropped in order to put the worst possible spin on the situation in Tibet.
Interesting stuff. Have a look. It's written in terrible English but I won't hold that against them given how poor my Mandarin is.
Of course, if China would let journalists and international observers into Tibet to see what's happening, they wouldn't face so much ignorance from the media which are forced to write stories about something they can't see.
Bringing a small, hand-picked group of journalists to Tibet to meet Chinese victims of Tibetan rebel violence doesn't count as press freedom.
More about that visit, see here http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7315895.stm
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