| I believe that CNN, BBC, and many others are definitely biased, but I feel that this whole mis-captioning fiasco has been overblown. I say this because back when the protests had only been going on for a couple days (before the Lhasa riot), my friend in China asked me to find some pictures online of the protests to send her since the GFW prevented her from finding that stuff. So I looked, and all I could find were pictures from Nepal and India (probably because press wasn't allowed in Tibet). The captions clearly stated that the images were from Nepal and India or I wouldn't have known. (I'd know they weren't from China, but wouldn't have known from where exactly.) I don't doubt that some news organizations made stupid mistakes and labeled them as China, but I personally did not encounter any of those mistakes in my search. All the photos I was able to find were correctly captioned. Yes, bias in news is a bad thing, but portraying "Western media" as a whole as biased is itself biased also. |
Error in Western Media Report about Tibet