Youths' Reference, a Beijing-based newspaper, reprinted an article from the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) which criticizes Chinese people for their loathing of the Western media's negative reports about their country.
The author of the article is a reporter of the US newspaper and obviously a Chinese by origin.
In the article, the writer cited a number of examples to illustrate what she says is the excessive importance Chinese people attach to "face". One example was the media coverage of contaminated drugs sold at the Hualian supermarket in Shanghai. After reading the report by the Guangzhou-based South Weekend online, most readers berated Hualian and China's drug safety administration. The report of the same incident by the Wall Street Journal, however, earned for itself condemnation from angry Chinese netizens.
The author asked: "I feel puzzled why these netizens would rather bury their heads in the sand like an ostrich than know the facts, for the (foreign media's) reports at least can tell them (what is wrong with the medicines). And why should they regard the face (of China) as more important than their compatriots' livelihood and lives?"
I feel puzzled at her remarks.
Since she had noticed that the Chinese netizens had expressed their anger over the incident after learning about it from the Chinese media, how could she claim that they had turned a blind eye to it?
As for her query why Chinese people tolerate their own media's negative reports about China's affairs but are unhappy about the foreign media's coverage of China's dark side, the answer is simple.
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