Something strange about CNN’s coverage of the Olympic protests. The word Tibet does not appear until paragraph eight. Is this deliberate – or just bad journalism? I noticed something similar from AP yesterday.
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Striking considering that the word Israel and Palestinian seem to be irrevocably fused when it comes to the reporting of that conflict.
“Is this deliberate – or just bad journalism?”
Oh, c’mon Roger – it’s CNN and AP – you know it’s Door #2.
Remember CNN’s faustian bargain with Saddam Hussein’s regime to stay in Iraq:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/opinion/11JORD.html
And CNN may soon be doing some news for CBS? (What, did they run out of liberals? …In my dreams.)
I guess that means Katie Couric won’t have to learn how to pronounce “Lhasa”.
Gun shy possibly as since the first riots started in Tibet Reuters, BBC and CNN have been deluged with literally thousands of e-mails from China demanding that the truth about these attacks be told. Off course these are all sent by independent and patriotic young Chinese that tend to use the same IP and commit the same horrendous grammatical and historical errors. Sort of an updated version of Mickey Rooney, “Hey kids let’s crash all the servers of the imperialistic running dog propagandists.” And by golly they’ll do it with no help from their parents and in an old barn out back.
It’s probably just bad journalism. If they were trying to appease the Chinese government in order to keep access, they wouldn’t have mentioned Tibet in any paragraph. And I very seriously doubt the reporters who wrote this story actually sympathize with Beijing on this question.
The caption for the picture next to the story mentioned Tibet. Today, I checked, and the picture is gone but replaced with a video that mentions Tibet in its caption.
I’m no fan of CNN, but in this case, I think it is bad journalism. However, since we know CNN will alter stories if any of their employees or contractors are at risk; I think it is fair to question their credibility in such situations.
Seriously, what happened or is happening in Tibet? Why people care about it so much? Frankly I even don’t know whether it is.
Look at these Chinese nationalisms; they even have a website called anti-cnn.com, ridiculous.
Today I heard that in Chinese Tibet they still have the slavery system. Han people are the slave owners and Zang people are slaves. China has the so-called “family plan”. Han people can only have one child, but Zang people can have two or three kids, so that they can get more slaves.