Experts: Netizens irritated at foreign media's false reports

Two experts majoring in journalism and media research expressed their opinions on this issue. One is Yu Guoming, Chairman of Public Opinion Research Institute, from Renmin University of China and the other is Yin Yungong, leader of Institute of Journalism and Communication, from the Chinese Academy of Social Science.

Yu Guoming: Theoretically speaking, this kind of distorted reports fall into two categories in the field of journalistic researches. One is a sort of confusion resulted from the ignorance of certain facts, which kind of situation is understandable and acceptable; while on the other side is the intentional confusion that calls white black, which is definitely not due to ignorance or lacking in knowledge of facts. This kind of confusion can only be regarded as purposeful deeds associated with certain political intentions or some in-depth national Interests

Yin Yungong: Actually the western world has been holding three one-sided viewpoints towards "the Dalai Issue," that is to say, nepotism, in which they take sides in the Dalai clique; bigoted opinions that are in favor of the Dalai Lama, turning a blind eye on the Chinese government and the Chinese people; and also prejudiced reports that are out of their nepotism and bigoted opinions.

The western media is totally neither fair nor square on "the Tibet Issue." Why? Mobsters assaulted innocent civilians, causing so many Hans and Tibetans injured and five young saleswomen burnt to death. However, I've never seen any western media reporting such inhumane actions by the rioters. None of them have shown even a bit of human cares to the Chinese people who were physically injured in the riot. Is this what they call human rights or justices?

Reporter: We've seen many people condemn some western media organizations for distorting facts in covering the Lhasa riot. They spontaneously set up some website portals or organized rallies to express their protests. What's your pinion about these behaviors?

Yu: It's actually quite normal. What really scared us are not the biased reports from the western media, but the one-sided view all over the world. To break through the unitary monopoly of the western media hegemony, we could make full use of the modern digital technology and various ways of communications and "citizen diplomacy" to publicize the truth.

Such distorted reporting by the western media did not only happen to the riot in Lhasa. After a careful look at their coverage about China in recent years, we'll easily find that their bias and prejudice over China are still inrooted.