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A response to readers' comments

My understanding is that a media organization send their journalists to another country to report whatever they see there so that their compatriots at home will get the right information about that country. For instance, social, political, economic and geographical conditions; the culture and customs; the people's livelihood; the potential for external investment and cooperation, and so on. In all, facts, both positive and negative.

Faithful reports about a foreign country's real, all-inclusive status quo is beneficial for exchanges between peoples of that country and the media's home country. Focusing only on the negative aspects of the country a foreign reporter stays in while saying nothing about the positive things is not only unfair to that country but is also cheating his/her compatriots at home.

Now, the third question in the controversy: Do the Chinese media "only reports bad news from abroad"? The person who wrote that comment challenged me to "do a quick calculation" about the Chinese media's stories on foreign countries about how many are positive and how many are negative.

This really embarrasses me for I never am good at "quick calculations". I can only speak from my general impression of Chinese media's reports on Western countries and can definitely state that the accusation is absolutely wrong.

Since China began opening itself to the outside world, a huge number of people have been to Western countries. After returning home, many wrote articles about their impressions of the countries and most of them were full of praise of the people's civilized manners, the clean environment and high efficiency in economic operations.