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Q: Are foreign media's reporting of China unfair and overly biased?
It depends on the media organisation. Because I live here I can only get the China Daily Newspaper where I live . I do read yahoo and Nine MSN news off the WEB, sometimes it differs to the China Daily reports, but it is usually much the same.
yes, governments use other govt as scapegoats for internal problems and in order to fuel nationalism and support for their own political system it is done in china as well. the truth is china and america have a great relationship and china needs the US/nato to maintain their policy of intervention , china's ruling party can always point to it as an excuse to exercise further controls and restrictions. US needs china to continue to ignore human rights so that the us media can print stories about it causing americans to ignore the problems at home and the fact that america is paying for china's crackdown on human rights with their lopsided trade deals
Some are a little biased as are a lot of media towards their own country, but not all of them. They give an insight into many of China's great achievemnts, but are critical of human rights, polution, corruption etc and I don't think any logical and open thinking person can deny that these things happen or exist. When compared to what Chinese media serve up then that bias is almost zero. The other point is, and I am refering to Australian media here, that they are also very critical of their own country and government when it comes to issues such as corruption, human rights and behaviour.
the same that China' government always uses the nationalism ,especially the cctv news to debase the other countries or deepen their crisis n play up our own goodness.thatz what we often laugh at Network News Broadcast on cctv1 ,usually it just includes 3 parts: 1,what important things our President ,Premier...did today or yesterday.2,the examples of chinese ppl are making a good living.3,how serious the situations are in the other countries!...........
All are biased to some extent where as Chinese media is simply propaganda with little news... Keeps it's population ill informed and ignorant. My favorite is Al Jazeera...
No more biased than usual. But you have to admit, China doesn't do a whole lot that's worthy of praise.
1) US media sometimes tries to rile up folks with China in one way or another, but they do that to every country. My own country has been a constant target of US complaining since pretty much my country existed.
2) In the three countries I've lived in, other than the US and China (Italy, Portugal, Canada), China in the news meant a slow news day. No one really cared about China all that much, except maybe in Italy where there was a fear that Chinese organized crime was ganging up with local organized crime, as a lot of Chinese shipping to Europe goes through south Italian ports, for some reason. All in all, few people really cared one way or another, from what I saw.
3) Chinese media villainizes every other country on earth to an unbelievable extreme. Absolutely every time another country, or even a lone foreigner, is portrayed in Chinese media, it is inevitably negative and biased, ranging from lies of omission to outright lies. Whenever the Chinese complain about China-bashing I have to laugh. There is no clearer case of psychological projection in the history of the world.
It all depends upon the current political flavor-of-the-day. When a certain Western country needs China's help, usually financial, to bail itself out of its own financial incompetence, then the newspapers of that country generally start to write wonderfully elogious things about China. When it's the opposite, then the opposite also holds.
The poster above that wrote that there is usually minimum difference between the China Daily and Yahoo or MSN is quite on the mark. When I first came to China, the difference between the China Daily and the Western press was striking. That has changed over the years and I often find many of the same articles in Western newspapers as I find in the China Daily, with the exception of items touching upon on the three "T"s.
Hmmm, let's see now.... the 2010 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize was Chinese national (and still living here!) Liu XiaoBo. How was this reported in the media???` Overseas - well done, congratulations, well deserved. In China - the guy is an imperialist spy, supported by capitalists who want to bring down our government - and the rest of the world should just piss off and leave us alone!
You'll even note the lead-up to the announcement - serious internet crackdown - sites blocked, Nobel Prize committee insulted, etc...
Ask any Chinese person today how many Chinese have won the Nobel Prize, and your answer will be 'none'... what does that say about media reports from overseas?
