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Beijing's Olympic Bidding and US Media Coverage
It's very nice to read messages from many countries, and most readers
expressed their objective opinions on various topics. I'd like to talk a
little bit about beijing's olympic bid and mainstream u.s. media's
coverage. As many people know, when coming to report anything on china,
u.s. media is extremely biase, some journalists don't know china, chinese
people, and chinese culture well enough to give objective reports (some
don't want to know), and some others have already formed their negative
perceptions of china and they totally ignore the changes happened in
china for the past two decades. This has reflected in most of their china
stories and beijing's olympic bidding was one example.
I'd first like to list a couple of facts and background before beijing's
bid:
- Chinese people has a long tradition of participating in various sports
and a large portion of public love sports events. - When china first
attented olympic games (1936?), it did not win any medal. One european
newspaper wrote an article on chinese athlets with a big "O" and the
pharase "East-asia's sick men" by their pictures. This humaliation has a
deep impact on chinese public since then. - After leaving olympics for
decades, china re-entered the olympic games in 1984 and their athlets did
very well with 16 golds. By 2000, china was the 3rd on the medal list in
Sydney. After losing 2 votes to australia (china's IOC executive, He
Zhenliang, was the first one to congratulate Sydney for winning the bid),
beijing started over again for the 2008 bid.
Now let's look at how u.s. media reported it: during the whole bidding
process, the media gave all kinds of negative stories and reports, some
people in the congress tried to pass a resolution against beijing's bid,
the media kept on their negative coverage on beijing and china even after
beijing's winning. When we read those coverages, anyone with clear mind
would have the impression: the media's behaviour is not due to different
political viewpoints, it displayed it's true color: that's is, how much
the media does not chinese people and its culture. Mainstream u.s. media
politized everything about china while they purposely ignored the
following facts:
- Beijing's bid had about 95% of public support (why the public opinions
of chinese people were not respected if the media really cared about
democratic principles?)
- Beijing bidding committee did a wonderful job in presenting the city
and chinese culture to the IOC voting members. It's a professional group
composed by college professors, journalists, famous artists, city
officials, environmental exports, etc. Who would be impressed and touched
by the bidding movie directed by Zhang Yimou, one of the best film
directors in today's world?
- Beijing won by 56 votes, and won it clean. If we really respect
democracy, how could media accursed a democratic process?
All those mean attitudes seen through u.s. media's coverage made many
chinese wonder why?! I hope the journalists go to visit china, see with
their own eyes, talk to ordinary chinese people, and they properly could
write their china stories better.
wzhang1@lms.kent.edu
shi zhang
10.9
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