The Machete Man Vanishes*

From Monday’s Taipei Times:

Armed with nationalism and the Internet, young Chinese abroad have launched a wave of attacks accusing Western media of bias in reporting on unrest in Tibet and defending Beijing’s crackdown.

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One [pro-communist Web site] complained that several news outlets showed photos of police in Nepal scuffling with protesters and misidentified the security forces as Chinese.

It accused US-based CNN of improperly cropping a photo of Chinese military vehicles on its Web site to remove Tibetan rioters who were pelting the trucks with rocks.

Those young ‘uns might want to re-direct some of that criticism a little closer to home.  ‘Cause it turns out their government has been distributing photoshopped pictures to news outlets (after a machete-wielding "Tibetan" in one shot was positively IDed as a Chinese agent provocateur).


* With apologies to the author of The Commissar Vanishes.  A great book, by the way.

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