Practicing of Journalism Demonstrated by an AP reporter

Greg Risling is a reporter with the Associated Press. In the AP story authored by Greg Risling, he described the car the two slain Chinese students were riding was a 'brand new $60,000'. The '$60,000 BMW' reference has a heavy undertaking in both US and China.

In the US, in the middle of the deepest recession in any people's memory, wealthy kids riding $60,000 from foreign countries, especially China, the largest lender to the US economy and the often demonized communist regime, the victims can expect little sympathy. Perhaps worse, should have feared for their lives in the first place. For example, 27 year old Vincent Chin was beaten to death in 1982 in Detroit by a group of American. Chin, a Chinese, was killed on the street because he was mistaken as a Japanese. At the time, Japanese cars gained market share in the US. The killers walked free from both federal and state courts.

In China, in an era when wealth is the alias for power abuse and corruption, the wealthy class is hated by the general public alike. A victim from a wealthy family will receive no sympathy, but ridiculing and mocking.

The 'brand new $60,000 BMW' in AP's story was indeed a 2003 3 series purchased by the victim with 77,418 miles on it.

Many people familiar with the victims wrote to Greg Risling regarding the erroneous reporting. However, Greg refused to issue a correction. In an email exchange with a Chinese journalism student which is posted online, Greg wrote, AP wouldn't issue a correction until 'the story has fallen out of cycle'.

The AP story with the $60,000 BMW was picked up by numerous print media, radio and TV reports in the US, and in China. After many complaints by friends of the victims, the AP still refused to publish a correction. Even though Greg Risling was forced to admit the wrong reporting after a friend of the victim produced the registration of the case, the AP still refused to publish this information. Greg Risling threatened the Chinese journalism student at Columbia University not to inform the public his admission of mistake 'in any language'.

In a layman's eyes, this explicit manipulation of news to stir public interests is despicable. However, Anyone familiar with American journalism will not have trouble to find resemblance in WTVT-TV, v. Jane Akre.

NPR Host Flexing Question Technique

NPR Host Melissa Block to an UN officer regarding China's applying for Intangible Cultural Heritage program: "..., hasn't China been trying to sort of suppress ethnic minorities and in particular Uighur traditions. How can they also be asking to safeguard this tradition?"

Before any answer can be provided, she already projected the impression of China suppressing ethnic minorities and in particular Uighur tradition as a matter of fact and stat quo. As someone who lives in China, and been to the ethnic Uighur areas, I can speak with confidence, based on my own observation, that the Communist Autocracy has always been, promoting ethical cultural for their own advantage.

For the communist Party, their enemy is the Han people who comprises of 90% of the Chinese population. During the communist rule of 50 years, they have successfully reduced the ratio of Han people from 98% to a little shy of 90% nationwide. The reason is simple, an angry Han will overthrow the regime, an angry Urghur can not.

Shame on her, and shame on NPR.

The Liars Work for Washington Post

'The Post', as people in the region refers to the Washington Post, has a reputation in news reporting, (most recently) with habitual lying.

In the screen shot captured from the official website of the Washington Post, three components can be read by viewers: The article on the riots broke out in Lhasa, a picture showing police dispersing protesters with wooden sticks, and the caption of the picture: "Chinese police rounded up Tibetans in the Tibetan capital city of Lhasa".

The problem is that the "police" were waring a uniform never seen in China. For a few readers who actually know the nuances in the uniform, it's more than clear which direction the Fan is trying the spin the news towards.

Perhaps it's a typo, or honest mistake made in the middle night after an exhausting long day?

Disappointedly, it turned out this is a deliberate spinning of fact executed by the Washington Post, and specifically the case reporter, Maureen Fan. When approached by concerned readers regarding the mismatching of photos and the caption, Fan replied '..the photo CLEARLY says it was taken in Nepal....'. Is that a joke?

Mareen Fan is not a stranger in news media, having joined the Washington Post in 2004. Readers have seen worse in terms of information spinning in the name of journalism, but a blunt lie with no intention of covering up is still rare. What a disgrace to her parents, to her alta mater, to women journalists, and to the human being to have a lair like Maureen Fan. The Washington Post website says Fan is covering China events in Beijing. Based on what we have seen, what we have read, and what we have heard from Fan, Washington Post's news license should have been revoked.

Where did she get her degree in mass communication? Who was her adviser? Just curious.