Friday, February 12, 2010

Are all CNN stories about China false? Or just most of them?

According to CNN, the high humidity and frequent fog in Shanghai is actually ';smog';. Apparently CNN failed to fact check the meteorological data for Shanghai and recognize its low pollution index.





CNN has a long history of misrepresenting life in China, so are all of their stories false or just most of them?





http://www.cnngo.com/shanghai/none/why-d鈥?/a>Are all CNN stories about China false? Or just most of them?
Like all media reports, there is a reason why the story was written, because it's worth writing about... but like most media reports, there is a certain degree of embellishment.





Also, if you were not in the US, you'll realize how CNN paints an almost MORBID picture of the rest of the world! There's usually a very biased, as one-sided as a story gets with CNN. If you check out the article link you posted, there's no good about China, only bad. There is rarely any good things written about China in MOST US media.





If all that were true, why are there so many Americans still flying over to China? Many have chosen to live in China over the US, many see China as the greener pasture anyway. This is because they chose to come see it for themselves or to look past all that biased media and take a risk.





Of course, there is no better or worse country and there is a bit of truth in whatever CNN decided to write about, but they're biased so when I listen or watch CNN, I make sure that I know, this is CNN's point of view, not the Americans (but shame on any of you for just falling for EVERYTHING they say), not the rest of the worlds'- JUST CNN.Are all CNN stories about China false? Or just most of them?
Are ALL stories about China false? NO!. CNN is one of the bigger news agencies in the world. They are watched and trusted world wide. They have no government sensors no government people in their offices explaining to them what slant to put on the news today. If you picked out the most trusted Chinese news broadcasting agency and put it up beside CNN for the world population to watch for 30 days and then ask the people what they thought, that is the reason Chinese news is not broadcast world wide. The government controls what is seen and said both in China. CNN broadcast the news, they may make it a little brighter or sharper to draw more people to watch it but it is factual and true. They have to do this to compete with the other world wide news organizations. If CNN did not broadcast the facts people in the other 200 nations would not watch it and then they would not be the news station they are, broadcasting to the world. CNN broadcast the news, as factual as they want it to be, it maybe slanted but it is factual because competition makes it factual.
Well, I'm Chinese, and I do watch CNN very often. As far as I can tell, most of their reports are not necessarily wrong, but problem is CNN tend to SENSATIONALIZE some problems or issues in China, which may mislead the audiences sometimes. Or in other words, most of their reports are very subjective. But, they did provide great coverage over Sichuan Earthquake back then, very objective and responsive, I was deeply touched by their reports back then.
dude shanghai in the summer is seriously like a discusting nasty cigarete scented sauna with an exhaust pipe of a car pointed right in it its just ******* nasty. but shanghai is extremely humid too considering its like 100+ in the summer and right next to the yangtze but its also extremely polluted too from all the construction and **** i think its alot better in the winter but that place is just a big hole if u ask me... cnn for the most part is right
you can try to google (or yahoo or bing) 'anti cnn'.


china news by cnn is standing for anti china writers. perhaps the fact is true , but the words is not right, or report bad news only while skip the development on some issues such as human right.


im chinese and perhaps i complain the gov sometimes but i can feel gov is try to be better, and had be better than before. but cnn, voa and some other us medias are always blaming china
Wake up China. America is a democracy. The government does not control our media. However, there are no checks and balances in China. The government must approve what it shows on television. As the American expression goes: People in glass houses should not throw stones.
Probably just a couple stories are not entirely correct.
well, as long as i'm in China i don't see things as true-false any more...


i view them through ';whose benefit'; glasses...





does CNN have a benefit of telling things about China right as they are?...


-- not really, coz that gives nothing to them...





does it make sense to hide something (or vice versa add something) while telling the news?...


-- sure it does, coz they can sell hidden info or set a trap on those who calculated one thing but finally got into another...





does it make sense for Chinese media to give the info of comme\rcial value right clear as it is?...


- well, read two statements above...





what i can say about Shanghai recently is that the guy who chose a place for a Disneyland was definitely hired by someone anti-Chinese...


the best act now will be ';oh sorry dear citizens, we shouldn't have neglected your interests and settle you off your beloved lands and ancestos tombs, we will chose a new place for Disneyland right away';...





otherwise they will have waves of resentment both from North (river matter) and the South (this park)...


bowing low will cost nothing yet it migh save much of the ad cost later, when the local people refuse to go to the attractions built on someone's tombs...


and i really hope there will be no outside sponsoring for guys with posters ';American cartoon beasts on my grandfather's grave';...





what is good for a river, isn't good for kids playground...


it's hard for me to get why they are initiating a human earthquake there...


the place isn't as big issue as people's beliefs and respect...


especially here...

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