Lies and bias
Mattel Group, the leading US toy producer recalled 20
million toys that made in its company in China. Despite the designing problems
explained the Group, some US media kept on with the sensational news publicity
with the theme of "toys with harmful lead", which badly damaged the image of the
products made in China.
During the past year, some of the foreign news
agencies also had a series news report on toothpaste consisting of diethylene
glycol that were exported from China, the incident of poisoning medicine in
Panama and the "Da Baitu" candy consisting of formaldehyde to embroider the food
safety problem of China. As a matter of fact, some of these incidents were
aroused by the different testing criterions in different countries and others by
illegal export from China. And some incidents were nothing but the fake reports
by some western media.
As the Olympic Games is nearing, Beijing's weather
and environment have also been the target of some western media. During the
"Good Luck Beijing" mountain bicycle testing event last year, a US media
published an article title with "Beijing¡¯s pollution the greatest enemy of
cyclists", which said "A US cyclist felt so hard to catch his breath due do the
bad pollution that he couldn¡¯t help but give up the match". Then a piece of
"suggestion" followed: to provide masks to the US athletes competing at the
Beijing Games.
Other issues including the Taiwan question and Darfur
issue were also made the material for sensationalized news "reported" by some
western media.
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