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这是我写给Editor的意见。我是加拿大人,所以尽管我很想骂(那个标题真实SB),对他们语气还是不错,呵呵。
Dear Editor:
I now have a photo sitting in front me. It is a screen shot I took when visiting www.macleans.ca. Right beneath the MACLEANS.CA title with the beautiful maple leaf logo, I saw the photo and headline of the cover story. The title is sharp and alarming:
'Butchers and Monsters'
The brutality in Tibet is no surprise.
Communist China will never change.
By John Fraser
Plus: A History of Repression.
Behind these provocative words, I see a photo of struggling women with pained expressions and policemen roughly pushing them to the ground.
I suppose that the writer and the editor who combined these words and photo together want me to feel the righteous anger for these "oppressed" people. I do indeed feel righteous anger, but my anger is actually directed at Macleans. I know very well that I am seeing a lie: these are not "butchers and monsters" from Communist China; these men dressed in blue-toned camouflage uniforms are riot police from Nepal.
I am a Chinese born Canadian citizen. I lived in Canada for eight whole years. I now study in University of California Berkeley. I spent my entire teenage life in Canada; I learned all about human rights and personal freedom. I support these values and I am proud to be a Canadian. While I cannot agree with the opinion of John Fraser, I absolutely support his right to speak his opinion and Macleans’s right to publish his words. However, does Macleans have the right to place a photo of Nepalese riot police on its website and print words like “brutality in Tibet” and “communist China” on top of that photo? Does Macleans have the right to lie outright to its readership? Libel is, the last time I checked, a crime. I understand that the cover of April 7th issue of Macleans actually does have the caption which states the photo shows incident in Nepal. While I think that tiny caption does not all detract from the misleading tone of the cover, I still thank you for stating the truth. Now I think you need to carry that over to the website as well.
I would like to remind Macleans of the Chinese voice responding to this entire Tibet incident. I hope you are aware of the pro-China rallies that drew hundreds, even thousands in major Canadian cities like Toronto, Vancouver, and Calgary this past Saturday. I would also like to tell you that there are similar protests elsewhere in the world as well: in Munich, Germany, in New Zealand, etc. I hope that western media, famed for their impartiality, can listen to these voices. People on the internet have repeatedly pointed out that many western media have used photos of Nepalese and even Indian policemen as evidence of Chinese suppression. Western media have also cropped images without justifications to distort what was happening in Lhasa. I hope Macleans will not become of these media fuelling a wave of justified wrath. So far, some media in Germany have already stated their mistakes. Even CNN has replaced its cropped image. I hope Macleans will soon edit the misleading photo and headline on the MACLEANS.CA webpage: this is the least you can do. I wish to see truthful and impartial media coverage in Canada, and I am sure you agree with me too.
Attached with this email are two images: one is the cover of the latest issue of Macleans, the other is a screen shot I took when visiting MACLEANS.CA half an hour ago. I hope they may help to illustrate my points.
Finally, I hope that Macleans can showcase different perspectives and different voices. Perhaps Macleans can consider interviewing Chinese students and immigrants in Canada and listening to what they have to say. So far western media poured out their hearts and lamented the grief of a few Tibetans, mostly Tibetans not residing in China at that too. However, the grief of the Chinese people in China and abroad receives only a few mentioning here and there and is almost always accompanied by accusations and questions over its sincerity. One cannot help but wonder about this “impartiality”.
A Chinese-Canadian, one of many |
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