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Who is Behind the Anti-CNN Website?


Written by Robert Vance on April 20, 2008 – 10:55 am
I checked out the infamous ’Anti-CNN’ website tonight after spending a week hearing my students gush with love and admiration over it. This ‘one page wonder’ is full of links, media images, and YouTube videos that ‘expose’ the follies of the Western Media who are apparently creating ”lies and fabricated stories” about Tibet. It’s interesting for about two minutes but then it get’s old really fast. After all, we already know what the Chinese government tell its people what to think about about the Western Media. Chinese people are ’spoonfed’ by the state controlled media from the moment they first see daylight. They are told that the West distorts the truth because it hates China. Again, that’s old news. What interests me more, however, are the English descriptions and phrases on the page. For a website that was supposedly set up by “some students” in Beijing, the English on the website is much better than I would have expected. Usually, English translations on Chinese websites (even very well known websites) are full of grammatical errors and often don’t make sense. This leads me to wonder who exactly is behind the website. Is it a collaborative effort with other Chinese students who are living abroad? If that is the case, there is probably much more to the website than meets the eye. Tonight I tried to post a question about this on the  Anti-CNN website forum. Unfortunately (or conveniently), I cannot post a message on the website until 12 hours after I have registered.

I am also wondering if someone will set up an anti-CCTV/Xinhua website. Sure, I could do it, I suppose. But I can only guess that I would spend a lot more time and fill up many more pages than our anti-CNN comrades in Beijing have. The information that is displayed on the anti-CNN website seems to ’smack’ more of simple mistakes and errors in judgement rather than intentional deception. But, that’s just me talking. I’m a Westerner myself so I’m naturally biased, right?

CNN is China’s favorite punching bag at the moment. To my anti-CNN Chinese friends who are under a  government that controls half their brain I can only say “you know not what you are saying or doing.” For that, they should be pitied, not condemned. They are just parrots who repeat what they are told by a government that routinely buries the truth in the deepest hole that it can find. That is why I believe that Jack Cafferty’s comments were directed at the Chinese government. And his analysis, crude as it was, hit home with Beijing because what he said was true.

http://www.teachabroadchina.com/anti-cnn-tibet-protests/

noprejudice

Just suddenly, there are so many anti-Chinese people surfaced.  They completely took off their pretence and showed their true color.  From every sentence he said, I can feel his disparaging tone towards the government and Chinese people.  Indeed, I had been too silly and too naive.  How could we topple this thick wall of prejudice? It looks like a long-term project.

kukkaukkonen

Robert Vance saying that he have difficulty get in the website, I felt it too, a few days ago, somebody has attacked the website, and the previous articles and discussions were all lost. now you see is just rebuild.
Without any proof, but can give a conclusion, I wander how this kind of person can be as a teacher.

noprejudice      thank you for your post. But this rumor will be closed, we no need to angry at one ignorant person, because there are many of them, let's fouse on the media report which make many people same  ignorant like Robet Vance.