I'm really enjoying the website 'anti-CNN.com'.
If you haven't had the pleasure, it's a site run by outraged Chinese mediawatchers who scour Western news outlets for examples of what they see as anti-Chinese bias.
Incidentally, CNN may feel a little hard done by to have been singled out for special mention given that several American and European media are criticized by the group.
In the wake of the mayhem that has engulfed the first three legs of the Olympic Torch Relay, anti-CNN.com has published photos which they say were deliberately ignored by the self-censoring Western media. The pictures show a 'well-functioning' male protester wrestling with a young, wheelchair-bound female athlete.
Lest we think there were no official photographers on hand to capture the moment, the website provides amateur pics of two snappers photographing police as they pin the protester to the ground.
I've been telling myself for a while that the Western media are simply more aggressive and sensationalist than Chinese viewers are used to. They tend to find the most dramatic and negative images available, which has been misinterpreted by some as anti-Chinese bias.
But if I'm right, why wasn't the fairly distasteful image above more widely published?
Is there a tendency to give carte blanche to Tibetan separatists because their human rights have been trampled upon?
I certainly don't agree with everything on 'anti-CNN.com' but they serve a useful purpose. The Chinese are not the only ones who ought to reflect on their media coverage.
Everyone's biased. Except me.
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Chinese people are extremely sensitive about issues associated with Nation Pride. American may not understand it, since there is a wide gap between Eastern & Western culture.
Wish sth would end this, we want a peaceful world rather than this one.
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