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Man should never act as low as CNN
Among western news media who covered the riots in Tibet earlier this month, the US-based Cable News Network (CNN) was a markable one for its serious distortion of the truth and betrayal of basic journalistic ethics. The so-called western mainstream media organization posted a picture showing a bunch of people running in front of a military vehicle on the street of Lhasa. However, Chinese netizens found that the right side of the original picture, which was cropped out by CNN, shows some rioters throwing stones at the vehicle. The flying stones, burning motorcycles and insane mobsters throwing stones are still visible from the original picture. But CNN editors just took it as nothing. They cut off the images that
can fully reflect vicious faces of the rioters. Thus the implications
of the picture published by CNN are just the opposite to the fact. Their
reports aroused great indignation from netizens all around China. Angered
by the distorted coverage, they united to hit back at what they called
"a conspiracy", even with a slogan Man should never
act as low as CNN! Besides CNN, a number of other Western media also distorted the truth
in covering the riots. On March 17, the British Broadcasting Corporation
(BBC) released a picture on its website showing Chinese riot police
officers helping medical staff carry a wounded person into an ambulance.
The caption on the website said There is a heavy military presence
in Lhasa. British newspaper the Times uses words such as military
crackdown, violent control, and hundreds Tibetans
were killed in its coverage to distort the truth. |
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