Share I couldn’t help laughing when I read a Globe’s column today. So now international media are turning their focus on the dark side of the Vancouver Games, suddenly the Canadian media is crying “biased”? Huh, huh… now they know how biased western media has always been, eh? Just days before the big event, the [...]
Share Here it comes again… The western media is once again quick to apply their double standard to China in the recent riots in Urumqi, Xinjiang. Times of London is among the worst: (link) As a people, the Uighurs look more like Afghans than ethnic Chinese. Ethnically, they are a Turkic race whose homeland is [...]
Share An article appears on Sydney Morning Herald reflects on how the western media have been handling the “chubby face, crooked teeth” incident. Hope we can see more of these self-reflections from the western media. (Related CIV discussion here.) The title of the story is: Western media shows its ugly face Here’s an excerpt (full [...]
Share I’m completely appalled by some comments made by Mr Cheuk Kwan to the Globe and Mail today in an article/discussion titled “Has Chinese patriotism changed?” I don’t agree with many points Mr Kwan raised but I respect his opinions. However, I cannot remain silent on his statements quoted as follows, which in my opinion, [...]
Share Ha ha. Now it’s our turn to taste the bitterness of foreign media having too much interest in our “dark sides”. Some of us who might not see why the Chinese have been upset about western media’s attention on China’s negativities, now it’s a chance to learn. “No one is suggesting this is something [...]
Share The famous ESWN blog has done some excellent research into how the media have been creating — literally — the “uneven/crooked teeth girl” hype. ESWN checked over many primary sources and found no mention of the girl who sang “Ode to the Motherland” was replaced by Lin Miaoke because of her “uneven/crooked teeth/chubby face”. [...]
Share The story of the “beheader” who brutally killed an innocent man and ate his flesh on a Greyhound bus has prompted some interesting discussions on various Chinese Canadian online forums. The CBC has approached a popular Chinese Edmontonian forum edmontonchina.ca as soon as the suspect’s name was released . Weiguang Li, a resident of [...]
Share CBC release – Radio Canada International’s Web service RCIviva.ca will air the premiere webisode of its new series A NEW FACE FOR BEIJING, starring a young Chinese-born Torontonian who decides to start over in Beijing. Internet users can watch this gripping six-part series online all summer long at RCIviva.ca—a new eight-minute webisode will air [...]
Share Hi guys, I’m back from my vacation. Time to start blahing again :) I know this sounds a little off now but since I’ve already written it, I’d love to post it here too. After my interview with the Macleans on the subject of Tibet was published in April, I received, through friends, questions [...]
Share Kadfly, the American blogger who happened to be in Lhasa when the riots broke out in March and who shot all the important photos of the riots which were then used by Reuters, NYT etc, has been under attack for b×××sh*ting for not standing on the side of Tibetans. He was also accused by [...]
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