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【原文标题】Happy 1st Birthday to China's Anti-CNN Web Site
【中文标题】祝中国反CNN网站一周年生日快乐
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http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?article_class=3&no=384947&rel_no=1
【译者】Johnsonpersonal
【翻译方式】人工
【声明】本翻译供Anti-CNN使用，未经AC或译者许可，不得转载。
【译文】
祝中国反CNN网站一周年生日快乐
中国网民网站继续对（外国）媒体的曲解进行抗争
Jay Hauben (jhauben)
在２００８年3月１４日，在中国西藏自治区的首都拉萨，一场藏族的游行示威引发暴力。一个加拿大观光客和和一个或两个新闻工作者目击到当时的情况，然后在网络上发布图片，视频和用文字描述这是暴民针对当地居民和财产进行的暴力活动，甚至在中国媒体准备报道之前（就进行了发布）。中国的媒体认为这是由西藏流亡政府煽动的针对汉族人和信伊斯兰教的人的暴力活动。很多的主流国际媒体如BBC,VOA和CNN认为这是歧视性的中国统治和中国警察的野蛮行为。
当海外的中国人发现一些美国，德国和英国的媒体在利用在尼泊尔和印度发生的警察和藏独分子间的冲突的图片和视频资料去证明这些媒体认为的由中国警察引起的暴动的断言，怒火迅速蔓延他们间蔓延。包含有１１个贴错标签图片的与不恰当文章内容的数字幻灯片在中国国内外广泛流传。
在这些错误的报道出现的几天内，饶谨，不久前毕业的大学生创办了反CNN网站，网址为： http://bbs.m4.cn他解析说在网民的怒火和讨论后，他要“说出我们想法让西方人知道事实的真相”。反CNN网的首页以文章，视频，和图片记录着一些西藏事件报道中所谓的失真资料。这个网站最早期只有中文的论坛然后也有英文论坛http://bbs.m4.cn/forum/en/ 组织者把反CNN网的目标定为战胜西方媒体的偏见，加强中国和国外网民的的交流，这样世界和中国的人民就可以对对方有一个准确的认识。他们在他们的网站中写道：“我们并不反对媒体本身，我们只反对偏见和媒体的不客观报道”。反CNN被选为网站的名字，其中一个组织者说，“因为CNN是媒体巨头，它能（对我们）造成巨大的损害，所以当它犯错的时候，一定要给予关注和质疑”。但是这个网站不局限于查找CNN报道中的失真。它号召收整理和收集全球媒体对中国的偏见和失实报道。
饶收到许多人主动提出提供帮助去寻找媒体报道失真的例子。他聚集了一支有４０个自愿者的团队去监测失实报道和制止一些煽情的话题。骂人，对个人或集体攻击的报道会被删除。一些比较煽情的报道不允许评论。论坛讨论以“西方媒体的偏见”,“西藏的事实（中文论坛叫‘走进西藏’）”和“当代中国”。起初的五天，这个网站吸引了２０万个中国国外的人浏览。随着时间的流逝，一些在汉人与汉人之间，西方人和藏族人之间，维吾尔族之间的含有争论性的话题，试图向对方展示他们是谁，不同意哪里，同意哪里。
在反CNN网上，为了回应揭露西方媒体（报道失真）的这个行动，很多来自己海外的浏览者发表了对中国政府媒体的审查制度的指责。在他们回应审查制度的时候，有些中国人承认存在审查制度，但坚持认为它很容易通过。所有的社会都有他们自己的审查系统，无论哪个地方的网民都要敢于去思考，和从各种渠道去获取信息。一个网名为麒麟网民写道，“我敢说，自由媒体都是同样是不自由的媒体。所以最重要的是什么？人民，我说，如果人民敢去质疑，敢去思考他们想要的，不要想有什么事情会发生在他们身上，这样我们才会有一个清晰头脑，不容易被欺骗，我敢说，如果有存在这样的人，那会是中国人。他们遭受各种暴动，文化大革命再加上长时期的各种欺骗，都没有被洗脑。”
西方媒体的关于反CNN的一些分析报告批评它是一种民族主义或者与中国政府有着某种联系。中国政府和反ＣＮＮ的组织否认任何与对方的联系，同时也没有任何迹象表明已经产生这种联系。通常这是在中国的网络信息空间民族主义情感的表达，比如号召抵制日本和法国的商品。在拉萨的暴力事件后，中国政府和媒体指责达赖喇嘛和“分裂者”，这是中国民族主义抵御的上升，包括在反ＣＮＮ上（体现）。在反CNN网上的主持人和网民总体上来说都是民族主义的反对者，这表明这是（民族）情感的一种形式，需要理智地区分，弄清事实和发表的所有意见。（反CNN网站的）主持人经常劝告中国的民族主义者要“冷静和讨论事实”。民族主义者的情绪和对国家的喜爱和愤怒通常也会出现在反CNN网站的论坛上，一个穿过国家和种族的障碍进行意见交换的机会，这是网民特有的一种国际性的表达。
中国的国民总体上都知道主流的中国媒体都有一段长历史作为被控制的和宣传的新闻机构。自上世界９０年代开始有商业化的媒体和更大的开放空间，但依然大部分的媒体有很强的历史痕迹。另一方面，主流的国际媒体已经广泛地出现在中国里面作为一个可靠的信息的来源，比如说对于非典事件和非正统观点的报道。广泛分布的网民，像饶先生，揭露几个主要的主流媒体报道的曲解和偏见。这也引起其它人的注意，质疑是否这些被称为西方的主流媒体中，宣传或政治性的媒体就比中国的主流媒体少呢？２００８年８月格鲁吉亚战争后，被指是俄罗斯过错。一个俄罗斯网友在反CNN网上发贴建议成立一个俄罗斯-中国联盟。他写道，“俄罗斯与西方媒体问题与中国面临的问题一样．．．我们需要做的就是让他们的关于其它国家如中国，俄罗斯的发行物写得公平，不要有政治动机．我很开心在这些事件上听到你的观点．
一年后，反CNN网站已经成为一个重要的新闻门户网站．他依然是两个分开的中文和英文论坛．和你想的一样，特另是在一岁周年纪念，西藏的问题仍然在争论（你可以去看这个链接http://bbs.m4.cn/forum/en/thread-3281-1-1.html）这是关于西方媒体双重标准的问题（你可以去看这个链接http://bbs.m4.cn/forum/en/thread-3078-1-1.html）。外媒依然歪曲正在中国发生的事情（你能从这里看到http://bbs.m4.cn/forum/en/viewthread.php?tid=3271）
我祝反CNN网站首次生日快乐和希望更久远的国际间网民的讨论
写于２００９年
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原文
Happy 1st Birthday to China's Anti-CNN Web Site
Chinese netizen Web site continues to debate media distortion
Jay Hauben (jhauben)
On March 14, 2008, Tibetan demonstrators in Lhasa the capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region in China turned violent. A Canadian tourist and the one or two foreign journalists who witnessed the situation put photos, videos and descriptions documenting the violence of the rioters against citizens and property(1) online even before the Chinese media started to report it. The Chinese media framed the story as violence against Han and Muslim Chinese fomented by the Tibetan government in exile. Much of the mainstream international media like BBC, VOA, and CNN framed the violence as the result of discriminatory Chinese rule and Chinese police brutality.
Wide anger was expressed by many Chinese aboard when they discovered that some of the media in the US, Germany, and the UK, were using photos and videos from clashes between police and pro-Tibetan independence protesters in Nepal and India to support that media's claim of violence by Chinese police. A digital slide show that contained a narrated presentation of 11 mislabeled photos inappropriate for the articles with which they appeared(2) spread widely in cyberspace in and outside China.
Within a few days of the appearance of the inaccurate reports, Rau Jin a recent university graduate launched the Anti-CNN Web site http://bbs.m4.cn . He explained that after netizen anger and discussion he wanted to "speak out our thoughts and let the westerners learn about the truth."(3) The top page of Anti-CNN featured articles, videos and photos documenting some of the alleged distortions in the coverage of the Tibet events. The Web site also had forum sections first in Chinese then also in English http://bbs.m4.cn/forum/en/ . The organizers set as the goal of Anti-CNN to overcome media bias in the West by fostering communication between Chinese netizens and netizens outside of China so that the people of the world and of China could have accurate knowledge about each other. They wrote on their Web site, "We are not against the western media, but against the lies and fabricated stories in the media." Anti-CNN was chosen as the site name, one of the organizers said, " because CNN is the media superpower. It can do great damage so it must be watched and challenged when it is wrong."(4) But the site was not limited to countering errors in the reporting of CNN. It invited submissions that documented bias or countered misrepresentations of China in the global media.
Rau received hundreds of offers of help finding examples of media distortions. He gathered a team of 40 volunteers to monitor the submissions for factualness and to limit emotional threads. Posts that were name-calling or attacks on individuals or groups were to be deleted. Emotional posts were not to be allowed follow-up comments. Forum discussions were started on "Western Media Bias," "The Facts of Tibet" and "Modern China." In the first five days the site attracted 200,000 visits many from outside of China. Over time serious threads contained debates between Han Chinese and both Westerners and Tibetan and Uyghur Chinese trying to show each other who they were and where they differ or where they agree.
On Anti-CNN in answer to the exposure of the Western media practice, many visitors from outside China posted their criticism of Chinese government media censorship. In their responses to such criticism, some Chinese acknowledged such censorship but argued it was easy to circumnavigate, that all societies have their systems of bias or censorship and that netizens everywhere must dare to think for themselves and get information from many sources. One netizen with the alias kylin wrote, "I can say free media works the same way as less-free media. So what's most important? The people I'd say---. . . If people dare to doubt, dare to think own (sic) their own, do not take whatever comes to them, then we'll have a clear mind, not easily be fooled. I can say, if such people exist, then should be Chinese.... the least likely to be brainwashed, when have suffered from all those incidents, cultural revolution, plus a whole long history with all kinds of tricks."(5)
Some analysis of Anti-CNN in the Western media criticized it as a form of nationalism(6) or of being somehow connected with the Chinese government. The Chinese government and Anti-CNN organizers deny any connection with each other and no verifiable evidence of such a connection has been produced. There are often expressions of nationalist emotions in Chinese cyberspace, for example calls for boycotting Japanese and French products. After the riot in Lhasa and the Chinese government and media blamed the Dalai Lama and "splitists" there was an upsurge of nationalist defense of China including on Anti-CNN. The moderators on Anti-CNN and netizens in general however are opponents of nationalism arguing that it is a form of emotionalism and needs to be countered by rational discourse and the presentation of facts and an airing of all opinions. The moderators often answered Chinese nationalists with admonitions to "calm down and present facts." While nationalist sentiment and love of country and anger appears often on the Anti-CNN forums, the opportunity for a dialogue across national and ethnic barriers is an expression of the internationalism characteristic of netizens.
Chinese citizens in general know that the mainstream Chinese media have a long history as a controlled and propaganda press. Since the 1990s there has been a commercialization of that media and more openness but still much of the national media has strong remnants from its past. On the other hand the mainstream international media had been widely assumed in China as a more reliable source of information about some events such as SARS and for alternative viewpoints. The widespread distribution by netizens like Mr. Rau of exposure of distortions and bias in major examples of the international mainstream media called into question for many Chinese people their positive expectation about that media. It also attracted the attention of others who questioned whether the so called Western mainstream media is any less a propaganda or political media than the Chinese mainstream media. After the framing of the war in the country of Georgia in August 2008 as the fault of Russia, a Russian netizen started a thread on Anti-CNN suggesting a Russian-Chinese alliance. He wrote, "Russian problems with the Western media are identical to Chinese problems. . . . What we need to do so that their publications about countries like China and Russia will be written in a fair tone rather than being politically motivated? I would be most happy to hear your opinion on these matters."(7)
One year later the anti-CNN Web site has become a significant news portal. It still continues the original separate forum sections in Chinese and English. And as you would expect but especially on this one year anniversary, the question of Tibet is still being debated (as you can see at http://bbs.m4.cn/forum/en/thread-3281-1-1.html ) as is the question of Western media double standards (as you can see at http://bbs.m4.cn/forum/en/thread-3078-1-1.html). And the Western Media still distorts what happens in China (as you can see at http://bbs.m4.cn/forum/en/viewthread.php?tid=3271 ).
I wish Anti-CNN a happy first birthday and many more years of international netizen debate.
© 2009
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