发表于 2008-4-18 06:41:00
39°FApril 17, 2008
In China, Western Journalists Face Challenges, Threats
BU prof says local students buy government line
By Chris Berdik
China Daily
Click on the audio player to listen to an interview from Beijing with Anne Donohue, a COM associate professor.
The five cuddly, brightly colored “Fuwa” mascots of this summer’s
Olympic Games in Beijing send the world wishes for “prosperity,
happiness, passion, health, and good luck,” according to the Olympic
Games’ English-language Web site.
But as China goes all out with Olympic preparations, and as foreign
media flood its cities, some Web-based patriots have a less welcoming
message for Western journalists who write about China’s human rights
record, particularly the country’s response to recent riots in Tibet.
New sites, such as anti-cnn
are filled with complaints about the “lies” of Western media, and laced
with exhortations such as, “Beat to death these unjust conscienceless
criminals.” Some Western reporters have been personally threatened with
harm. “The Chinese people don’t welcome you, American running dog,”
reads an e-mail to an Associated Press reporter. “Your reports twist
the facts and you will suffer the curse of heaven.” A text message to a
Western journalist states simply, “One of these days I’m going to kill
you.”
“Western
news bureaus have been inundated with nasty, scary stuff,” says Anne
Donohue, a College of Communication associate professor of journalism,
who is currently in Beijing on a Fulbright award teaching her craft to
Chinese students at the People’s University of China. Donohue says the
Chinese government has been pushing the bias story through its official
media, with daily headlines decrying the coverage. In a phone interview
from Beijing, Donohue tells BU Today that her undergraduate
journalism students, people she would expect to be natural skeptics,
are buying the official storyline of a Western media conspiracy “hook,
line, and sinker.”
“These students really see the world in a very different way,” she
says over a crackling phone line. “They think that nationalism or
building up their country at all costs is the most important thing, and
that’s more important than any other freedoms they would want.”
To learn more about China and the Olympics, listen to WBUR's On Point, which this week is broadcasting live from Shanghai.
Chris Berdik can be reached at cberdik@bu.edu.
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另外附上Jack Cafferty在CNN的News Commentary的Link和Script，以及上文中提到的anti-CNN的网址（www.anti-cnn.com）。
我想大家都能判断出到底谁是biased...
Jack Cafferty's "News Commentary" in CNN: http://youtube.com/watch?v=LyCTTeR2Ne8
Script: On the April 9, 2008 broadcast of CNN's "Situation Room", when asked to
comment on the United States' relationship with China, Cafferty
responded: "Well, I don't know if China is any different, but our
relationship with China is certainly different. We're in hock to the
Chinese up to our eyeballs because of the war in Iraq, for one thing.
They're holding hundreds of billions of dollars worth of our paper. We
also are running hundred of billions of dollars worth of trade deficits
with them, as we continue to import their junk with the lead paint on
them and the poisoned pet food and export, you know, jobs to places
where you can pay workers a dollar a month to turn out the stuff that
we're buying from Wal-Mart. So I think our relationship with China has
certainly changed. I think they're basically the same bunch of goons
and thugs they've been for the last 50 years".
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