Wednesday, October 12, 2005

media - After the attack of Lu Banglie 4

The debate on The Guardian's way to deal with its report on the attack of Lu Banglie continues. I support very much the list of questions Bingfeng wants to see answered, to get really a good insight in what is happening at Taishi.
He blames some of the participants in the debate they are not able to ask those very relevant questions. And he continues:

people with such mentalities don't have a place in their minds to raise such questions beacuse they are not detached and their minds are pre-occupied by such prejudice that the government must be bad and they must collaborate with the one who hired those mobs.

such mentalities are fine with writers or preachers or propagandist, but are very bad for those who claim to be "china observers". and with more than 20 years experience of fighting such mentalities in china, i have no tolerance of them.

I'm just in the middle of a minor media row in the Netherlands, after I blamed human rights organizations last Monday in a short piece they give a rather distorted picture of the reality in China. I do see media have to simplify, clarify, but you do cross a border when you are missing relevant information because they do not fit your single-minded view on China.
Amazing to see that many of the European media are still chewing on the initial report in The Guardian and have not noticed yet that something is stinking here. A more straight-forward clarification by The Guardian would be the least to expect.

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