CNN: Leader of liars

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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/27/chinese-website-accuse-cnn-liesBy Sylvie Barak: Thursday, 27 March 2008, 8:35 AM DESPITE NOT BEING able to access most foreign media, Chinese students are convinced that the West’s coverage of China and recent events in Tibet is inherently biased and even downright lies. So, to counter the evil libel of foreign journalism, they have set up a website called Anti-CNN to debunk the propaganda of the West.According to AFP, a letter posted to the site (which has now been removed), demanded that Chinese people everywhere rise up against 'the Western Goebbels Nazi media', by bombarding them with emails, faxes and letters commanding them to apologise for their lies about the goings on in Tibet. The site slams several media sources, but reserves special ire for CNN which it dubs 'leader of liars'.The site was created by Rao Jin, a graduate from Qinghua University in Beijing, after ex-pat Chinese wrote to him complaining about ignorant Westerners' total misunderstanding of China. The open letter on the site also proclaimed, "The Chinese nation, peace-loving, refined and cultivated, has long swallowed humiliation and submitted to insults. It can no longer be a silent lamb."Screenshots on the site point out alleged factual errors in foreign media reporting, and comes at a time when the Chinese authorities are becoming more and more vocal about their extreme displeasure at how the foreign media is treating the Tibet riots.There have also been several videos posted on YouTube, defending the Chinese position and 'enlightening' the free world about its media’s lies including " Riot in Tibet: the true face of Western media" and "Tibet Lhasa Riot Shame on Western Media!".Well, at least our governments let us watch Youtube and make up our own minds.

 

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Again, "being able to watch youtube" seems to have given the writer the right to shrug off factual errors as "simply alleged", and dismiss the call for true media honesty as, in sarcastic tone an attempt on "enlightening". I can almost read the subtitle of the picture on her thoughts "These communists enlightening us? HA!" Unfortunately, not many are falling for this simple antic of distraction anymore. We have seen, with solid graphical evidence, of how a select number of sophisticated West Media, using equally sophisticated wording to carefully lead their audience towards one side of the spectrum. China needs democracy, but that is no reason to "lie" or "intentionally mislead using suggestive images, cut out from a larger and much more revealing original".

It pleases me to see the how writer seems unable to react to the fact that the supposedly suppressed (I mean come on, not being able to access youtube? that must make it hell to live over there!) Chinese population, especially the younger generation, is offering a hostile reaction. I guess the shock was so large that her bitterness and confusion made him or her had forget the most important weapon of them all: to "allege" that there must be a malevolent government incentive working in the background. Shame on him or her for missing that. The writer is, simply put, not quite sophisticated enough to survive in a competitive media world yet.