Western Media bias against China

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Ok before before we go any futher on that road I close this thread. It was orginally on the edge but this far you have shown remarkable maturity to discuss with the thing but it seems like now we are heading towards ill direction. This is members club room, place for MEANINGLESS BS and relaxation, not for anything that couses emotional stirs

Re: Death toll in Xinjiang riot rises to 140

cmb=1968 said:

I think they are referring to CNN, though I don't recall any reporting on rioting period on CNN with all the stuff on Jackson in the US though CNN international may have reported on the rioting.

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Not just CNN, but most of the large media hubs in the west, like AP, BBC, while Reuter is relatively better, but not by much, from what I have read of those news articles in western media I get the only impression that the Uighers were the one that got attacked by mobs of the Han chinese and by the police, military(who they claim fired indiscriminating, but obviously without any kind of graphic evidence to back the claim up), if I wasnt a chinese that have acess to chinese news and sites, from reading these report I would be shocked over how evil and brutal those Han chinese are and how repressive and cold blooded the communist Goverment is when they are handling the poor poor Uighers who are clearly freedom fighters that are just trying to defend their homes from the Han chinese mobs as well as goverment attacks, and peacefully protesting.

Re: Death toll in Xinjiang riot rises to 140

cmb=1968 said:

It is not Anti-chines bias it is Anti-communist government of china Bias.

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Actually, it is very much anti-Chinese bias, as people don't make distinction between the two. An obvious example is that when Chinese don't buy western-media reportings and defend China, they are immediately branded as brainwashed, or said to be getting paid, or said to be government agents. If you ever read comments from BBC's Have Your Say, you will know what I mean. Many time, criticizers argue that they are only anti-China and not anti-Chinese, but if that were true, they would have respected any Chinese's opinions. Instead, they take a better-than-thou altitude and assume all Chinese can't think independently.

Re: Death toll in Xinjiang riot rises to 140

august1 said:

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Preliminary figures are coming out from the hospitals regarding the ratio of Han to Uyghur victims. The above article quotes them as 80% and 13% respectively. I find it harder and harder to swallow the official Western media stance of the riots being a peaceful demonstration against racial discrimination. As a Chinese person I feel personally insulted by Western media's deliberate bias and utter disregard for Chinese lives.

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Amen. Living in the US for many years has taught me this lesson well. Every time something happens concerning China, I check the usual suspects for anti-China bias, and 90% of the time I find it. Sometimes it's subtle and insidious, like the wording in one of the BBC photo captions describing the two young ladies who were injured and bleeding from the riots as having "blood on their hands". For me, this constant demonization has built up a deep well of resentment. Sometimes I think the Chinese government is doing the west too big a favor by censoring its biased media. If the average Chinese citizen read all that bullcrap, there would be more xenophobia and more ammunition for hardliners. Western politicians think that if the western viewpoint was uncensored, the average Chinese would suddenly be enlightened and rise up against the government. This fallacy underestimates how well-informed and smart Chinese are. They know, first hand, the problems with their government, they don't need people overseas to tell them. They'll see right through the hypocritical bull crap. It is unfortunate the Chinese government also underestimate the intelligence their own citizens.

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To be honest, I find Western coverage on this event to be surprisingly weak. They seemed a lot more interested on Michael Jackson's funeral. The one network which I watched, when I was traveling, that had quite a bit of coverage on this, in a suspected biased fashion, was no other than Al Jazeera.

Re: Death toll in Xinjiang riot rises to 140

Engineer said:

I concur absolutely with this view point. Often time, I am very angry at the people in China's propaganda department because they seem brain-dead. Blocking information is an extremely stupid idea. Instead of blocking reporting from the west, anti-China reporting should be broadcast on CCTV at 6-o'clock news. All it takes is a statement "<insert media name> says that the riot on <insert time> was a peaceful protest", then broadcast news footages from the west, and that would be done. Western media would be utterly discredited in China for the next decade.

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Haha, that's too true. The PRC needs to have some more Public relations people that understands how their own people and how people from western countries think, which may reduce bad press a little.
Chinese coverage of the riots I think were pretty good, some news channel I watched made reference to coverage of this to coverage of tian an men, commenting it was "different".

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Adding to this subject, I was reading the BBC news today and I saw this article as the main one for Asia-Pacific.

The title says it all. In the article, it even says

But it said that of the 184 people who died, 137 were Han Chinese.

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I find their hyperbolic statement uncalled for. From what I've been reading in this thread, it seems the PRC has no large quarrel with the minorities and tolerates them.

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Honestly, trying to point out a worldwide anti-china conspiracy behind each and every rock, is getting a little boring.
A 61 year old woman planing a sophisticated large scale attack half around the world seems a little odd. And then trying to say: her congress met a few times, she made a phone call saying something would happen, and a day later there were riots => that's evidance she must have masterminded it, that's even more weired. She has also been elected in the peoples congress, wich I'm pretty sure only happens after a thourrough check up, esp. when she was representing a 'problematic minority'.
And now she shell have committed espionage and fraud even before that time ... ?
Why her now, is the 74 year old man not interesting enough any more?
And btw, if everybody is complaining about the evil western journalists making false reports, why are so many journalists denied acces to the areas of interest were they could see the truth?

Re: BBC (Western Media) bias against China

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Re: Death toll in Xinjiang riot rises to 140

Scratch said:

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Why her now, is the 74 year old man not interesting enough any more?
And btw, if everybody is complaining about the evil western journalists making false reports, why are so many journalists denied acces to the areas of interest were they could see the truth?

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Foreign media are having free access in Urumqi. What 'denied access' do you mean ?