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Tibet March 27, 2008 10:36 PM Missouri Time

Hypocrisy of Western media is beyond the pale (Me thinks They doest Protest To Much)

Shanghai Daily

And the Beat goes on.  Today I read in the Shanghai Daily a report by a Chinese Government hack named Zhou Yan.   He parrots the official party line of the Chinese government about the Tibet riots.  Calling the western media liars and etc.  We have seen it posted on my site and many others for days now.  This is not new.  He does however add a few things that I would like to talk about. 

He start out by blaming western media for bias and untrue reporting he uses as his example of the “western media"  a web page from India.  Last I checked India was not western.  In fact it is Asian.  So the western media are a bunch of liars but you are just an idiot who can’t look at a map.  He goes on to talk about a women who talks in Mandarin about the riots.  Her quote is as follows. "They destroyed our good life; now our children cannot go to school and we can no longer get to work."   He claims that she is talking about the rioters and not the Chinese.  However there is no context.  We don’t know what she is talking about.  Maybe she is talking about the rioters or maybe she is talking about the Chinese police.  No one knows.  He claims the subtitles said this "All the Tibetan people have gathered together yesterday on the street and the military men fired some tear gas, some poisonous ... and arrested about 10 or 20 people."  Is it possible the subtitles where a little ahead or behind what the women was saying.  Even with these subtitles is she saying anything bad about China.  Sounds like just an eyewitness report to me.  China has claimed that they fired tear gas and has arrested people.  Isn’t this just confirming what the Chinese government itself has reported?

The report says again “some media corporations have deviated from the basic principles of journalism, deliberately or indeliberately, by dubbing videos with fake sound bites, putting up photos with misleading captions and making groundless accusations of the Chinese government.”   Please give me another example because so far you have only shown Asian media doing this.

Now he gets to a list of news agencies that are supposable lying to the world.  Now don’t think I am a big fan of the mainstream media. They do stretch the truth but tell me whom you would trust more.  CCTV Chinese Government TV or “news groups including the Washington Post, CNN, Fox News, BBC, The Times (of London) and several French and German media organizations.”  I think I will put my money on the western media here.

This is my favorite quote of the entire article.  â€œI doubt if any of these biased reporters and editors have ever been to Asia. Maybe they are so fed up with their job that they don't even care to tune in to international news on TV?”   So after claiming that all media is biased against China he chides the media for not watching the media.  Which media should they watch?  The India media that you claim is alreOh, I forgot.  To Chinese only China is Asia and other Asian countries are Asian only if they agree with China.

Over and over they give examples of police from other countries being shown as China police.  Nepalese police, India police are shown in pictures with captions like.  “China Cracks down on rioters”  Perhaps the reason we don’t show the Chinese police in these pictures is because you wont let the media in to take these pictures.  Oh but he has an argument of this also. 

“The Chinese government's intention to keep foreign reporters away from the potential risks in the Tibetan communities is widely distorted; many foreign media are criticizing China of having deprived their freedom.

The 26-member international media delegation that left for Lhasa on Wednesday, I hope, will slam the brakes on such unfair criticism.

Let's see what these foreign reporters will say after they set foot on Lhasa.”

So the media has been kept out for their own safety.  Now that China has bludgeoned the will to fight out of the rioters they will let a select few reporters go in and see what’s going on.  The streets have been cleaned of the blood.  The most vocal have been put into “re-education camps” and the slogans have been white washed from the walls. Now the west is allowed to see what happened.  Now the “truth” can be told.  China is a peace loving, human rights giving father to the poor mistreated Tibetans.

 

Posted by: White Devil at 10:36 PM

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