Some western media blamed the government and security forces for the violence, without even mentioning the brutal killings by those rioters, netizens said. The CNN report, “Unrest among Uyghur residents in China” (July 7, 2009), mainly used one anonymous witness and a spokesman for the World Uyghur Congress as the news source, portraying the event as a bloody crackdown over the peaceful protestors.Somehow, the reports are more concerned with the rights of these rioters/terrorists than the crimes against the innocents citizens get caught in the scene! How irresponsible it is for these reporting agencies to show this biased news! ” he said.
”Naturally, the audience would think that those people died because of police action. But this is not the case. They were actually killed by the rioters. This way of editing video footages is politically charged and will make many Westerns confused. It only enforces the misunderstanding of China’s ethnic minority policy,” the post said.
The AFP report also starts the report with sentences like “China poured troops into the restive city of Urumqi”, immediately restraining people’s attention to the dramatic scenario of crackdown, the netizens said.
”Media has its own way of operation and you can’t expect the Western media to be objective and balanced,” a netizen said on sina.com.cn.
”All they desperately need is people’s attention, and that’s why the toy factory conflict is framed as ‘ethnic cleansing’. These concepts sell well in the Western world.”
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