Honest Western Media? Not always

Known as the "throat and mouth of the government", Chinese media are not famous for their reporting freely. Yet people have to know that manipulating media is one thing every government would do.

The picture on the left was about how cnn.com cut the orginal photo and twisted the truth.

As you can see, the bigger picture on the right showed a group of rioters attacking public vehicles. Yet on cnn.com, the picture was cut. Readers can only see two men crossing the street. Obviously, the photo editor in CNN did it on purpose so that the riot in Tibet might looked more like government surpressing people.




Here is another reason why we should have a second thought before we buy every story published by western media.

The picture on the left is a comparision between the orginal photo and the edited version published on Bild.de, a Germany website.

The picture showed a protest in Nepal. Yet the editor of the website cut off the Nepal policemen who were maintaining orders in behind, only showed a crying lama lying on the ground.

Thanks to the extensive education of English learning, many Chinese who have good English skill now open some bilingual websites to send out different message about China. Anti-cnn.com should be the most out-standing one. In response to the incident that Jack Cafferty, host of The Situation Room of cnn, commented Chinese as " thugs & goons", the website became famous. Contributers, most of whom now live overseas, found out twisted reports about China and posted them on anti-cnn.com.