Overseas Chinese launch website to expose 'biased' Tibet coverage
AFP, March, 2008
BEIJING (AFP) — Chinese students living overseas have launched an "anti-CNN website" aimed at exposing the Western media's alleged biased coverage of unrest in Tibet.
The website, www.anti-cnn.com, has posted an open letter asking all Chinese to rise up against the "Western Goebbels' Nazi media", a reference to German dictator Adolf Hitler's propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, the China Daily reported on Wednesday said.
The letter could not be found on the website Wednesday, but it was posted on a number of online forums for overseas Chinese.
"The Chinese nation, peace-loving, refined and cultivated, has long swallowed humiliation and submitted to insults. It can no longer be a silent lamb," the letter said.
The website brands CNN as the world's "leader of liars," exposing what it calls errors in reporting by the US news channel and other Western news outlets, including British and German ...