CNN once again showed its true color when Jack Cafferty, an anchor in “The Situation Room”, made racist remarks against Chinese people on a program aired on April 9. Many overseas Chinese were angered and are threatening to boycott the sponsors for the show until the anchor apologized. Cafferty insulted the Chinese people with a highly despicable statement: "They (Chinese) are basically the same bunch of goons and thugs they have been in the past fifty years".
The new campaign against CNN is just an escalated version of the "tit for tat" campaign in response to CNN's recent coverage on the Olympic relay in Paris, London and San Francisco, which is overwhelmingly condemned by the Chinese community as ungrounded and defamatory. CNN never apologized, but made excuses instead.
These examples are just a drop in the bucket in how the Western media deliberately distort the news. Manipulations such as repeatedly cropping images and mistaking Nepalese police beating monks for Chinese police in a photo caption are examples of how the Western media are trying to defame China's image before Olympics.
So should the Chinese government be criticized for investing billions of money into boosting Tibet’s economic and religious development all through years?
"I just want to tell people: please learn something more about Tibet's current situation first! They will find that during 50 years, Tibet has enjoyed huge development, instead of going backwards," Nathalie Hrizi, a school teacher, told China.org.cn. She and her Party for Socialism and Liberation staged a counter protest before the San Francisco Olympic torch relay.
Western politicians also forget what they did in response to riots. When Chinese police went to maintain the order and stability in Lhasa, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who vigorously commented on China's internal affairs in recent weeks, forgot how he reacted to Paris riots in 2005. US Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, also forgot how the American government sent troops to crack down on the Los Angeles riots of 1992 with about 10,000 people arrested and 53 people dead when she represented the 8th Congressional District of California at that time. Let’s not even mention the human rights abuse that occurred at the Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay prisons.