標題: THE CHINA YOUTHS REJECTED WESTERN MEDIA BIAS, AND PLEASE DON』T BE TOO BBC 中國青年拒絕西方媒體偏見，做人不能太BBC [列印本頁] 作者: bk98959 時間: 2016-8-8 11:14 標題: THE CHINA YOUTHS REJECTED WESTERN MEDIA BIAS, AND PLEASE DON』T BE TOO BBC 中國青年拒絕西方媒體偏見，做人不能太BBC Anseryan network Monica HU
雁網 清風徐來
7
Why are we so often disturbed by Western media reporting and analysis of China? Why does reading commentary of China』s economy, foreign relations, politics, and society leave us feeling emotionally abused, injured, or even angry and resentful?
I believe our reactions are a response to the pervasive, ugly, and malevolent element in Western media reports.We see this vile sentiment often in Western media coverage of news events, in reporting on Chinese business, and particularly in analysis and commentary on policies, plans, and initiatives of the government and the Communist Party.
It is not just reporting mainly 「bad news,」 like tainted milk powder or cooking oil scandals, although this feature is common too, particularly in blogs and the popular press. Rather, it is reporting only of the facts that support a narrative of endemic amorality or immorality and government social irresponsibility.Even distorted the facts, deliberately fabricated plot,and framed in China without the rule of law and human rights,with a subliminal message that the Chinese people or system are immoral, corrupt, and will or should fail.
1The commentator most identified with schadenfreude in writing on China is Carrie Gracie.Carrie Gracie (born 1962) is a Scottish journalist, who is employed by the BBC as the China chief editor for BBC News.Her brand is emblematic of the negative bias toward China, tinged with schadenfreude,that is more common than uncommon in the Western press.
A few days ago, when we asked why Western mainstream media have not reported that U.S. diplomats encouraged the families of 「the subversives 」 to make trouble in front of the Chinese courts, and had the popular video in our network.BBC selectively ignored this Breaking News, only the name of Carrie Gracie ,who is employed by the BBC as the China chief editor for BBC News stated:「With many of the bravest and most defiant in China』s legal community now humiliated, cowed, discredited and jailed, who will represent the child poisoned by toxic milk powder, the ethnic minority academic accused of separatism, the feminist protesting sexual harassment or the citizen maimed by unaccountable thugs?America really spreads democracy in China,but China is always to think of the United States as an enemy, it will exacerbate antagonism between the two countries.」
When the lawyer Wang Yu released on bail,she clearly claimed that she refused to accept the International Human Rights Prize. The American Bar Association,in the absence of the winners,still forced to award the prize to her. What kind of democracy and human rights does it reflect?
A Tianjin court took various measures to ensure transparency in subversion trial.Almost 50 people, including the media, law professors and attorneys, sat in the court』s public gallery and heard the trials.Of the media, five were from overseas organizations. They registered at the court after seeing the online forecast and got the chance to hear the case.Tianjin No 2 Intermediate People』s Court posted a forecast of the series of trials on its official micro-blogging account and published statements, videos and pictures on how the case hearings were developed for the public via its Twitter-like platform.Although the courtroom has limited seats, overseas journalists who missed the registration could go to a media center in a hotel near the court, where information on the trial was provided in a timely manner via a big screen, along with some snacks.However,BBC reporters can』t adapt to the transparency in subversion trial,leaving the media center on the 27th floor,hiding in the corner of the coffee shop on the ground floor ,and continue editing comments for demonizing China.
The portrayal of the Middle Kingdom in the western press is uniformly unflattering.Although the senior BBC editor claiming in China for 30 years, we can still find that her report is permeated with arrogance, prejudice and snobbishness as commonly seen in some Western media.Their prejudices and false reports led to a misunderstanding of China in the world.The right cannot be wronged, and justice will prevail.The new generation of Chinese refuse to put up with stereotypes that the Western press insists on projecting on China.
Then something strange occurred. A backlash began inside China against the way the international media were reporting on the case of human rights lawyers. It came as a big surprise to foreign journalists that it was ordinary young Chinese who were protesting, not party officials in Beijing.
From the outside, of course, we are often dismissed as nationalistic youths with a blind allegiance to the state. Commentators in the west also assume that we are a single group, with a single set of views.
So let』s make a few things clear. The backgrounds and ideas of the China Youth could not be more varied. From Confucians to Christians, from Trotskyists to Maoists, and from Diehards believers to hit-and-run opportunists, it makes more sense to think of us as a loose alliance of educated Chinese whose different stripes show the complexity of contemporary Chinese intelligentsia, and of Chinese society as a whole.
What we have in common is our concern with Western media, and how they shape the world』s understanding of our country. With more access than ever to the international press, many young Chinese are fed up with the usual patronising coverage of a 「rising China」. We are, after all, the world』s second-largest economy and the largest creditor of the United States. But we also understand that this is not a simple story to tell. China is a constitutionally socialist state that now forms the core of global capitalism. It will never remake the world in its own image, just as the west has never transformed China either.
Beyond that, though, the China Youths disagree as much as we agree, particularly on domestic affairs. Some of us hail all efforts of the state as judicious and benign,while others remain skepticism of many aspects of China』s development.But we all cherish China』s revolutionary past, and many of the socialist remnants in our social fabric.We are excited about the potential of China as an alternative force in the world.
Stunning inequality, confused identities, ecological decay and economic stagnation are among the challenges that China faces. But we are hardly alone. They are common across the developed and developing world, magnified and deepened by transnational capitalism.
Being confident in our country and culture at a time of huge global change should not label us immediately as 「state-guided nationalists」. Instead, it should provide the basis for an equal conversation, a starting point to break down the cultural and ideological barriers that continue to divide us. The world』s social, economic and ecological sustainability affects us all. Blanket hostility towards China』s attempts to tackle these questions helps no one.The China Youths rejected western media bias,and Please don』t be too BBC!