China and Tibet: The Spin Campaign

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Source: YN

Cyberspace in China is a rough-and-tumble place, where mobs of virtual vigilantes can single out an innocent victim for public humiliation in a way that isn't common in other parts of the world. But in recent days the sights of China's netizens have been trained not on a person but on an institution: the Western media, which is being vilified as unfair, uninformed and incompetent in its coverage of the uprisings over Chinese rule in Tibet. In blogs, chatrooms, bulletin boards and even by instant message, ordinary Chinese are excoriating the international press. There's even a special website that has been launched to attack perceived media bias. Among other transgressions, the site's home page displays mistakes by German TV stations in which Nepalese police, shown in videos rounding up Tibetan protesters in Kathmandu are identified as Chinese.

"This is a struggle against Western hegemony," writes Rao Jin, a young Beijing businessman who set up the site. "The time has passed when the Western countries could try covering the sky with the lies of a few filthy mouthpieces."

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Are these Chinese Free Republic'ers?

The "our country, right or wrong" type?