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10:46, April 25, 2008 |
Huanqiu.com posted a public opinion poll entitled "Do you think the overseas Chinese protest can change the media bias?" as recently overseas Chinese have used various methods to counter the Western media's distortion of the incident in Lhasa. Results show that more than 70 percent of Chinese netizens believe that the resistance overseas can to an extent change foreign media prejudice in their reports about China.
Netizens who hold an affirmative view generally believe that the overseas Chinese's protests have an affect to a certain degree. One netizen wrote: "Overseas Chinese's protest is the most powerful positive response to some Western media which deliberately distort China." This netizen also gave a more detailed analysis: they (overseas Chinese) understand China and are familiar with the characteristics of Western media reports. Their actions can more directly reveal the hypocritical "objective and fair" mask of some Western media. Their struggle brings "different voices" to ordinary people in the West, which is conducive for reflection on the Western media; or at least to realize that there may be problems in the reporting they receive. In the long run, for the "capital-driven" Western media, the changes in "audience" are bound to affect media reports' orientation.
One netizen said: "Perhaps at present it seems ineffective, but this is a very good start." We can see from these messages that the overseas Chinese attitude is strongly supportive.
By People's Daily Online
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