Sina.com's anti-CNN imagery is violent

The logo looks like something CNN would cook up at the dawn of a new military campaign, but this time the computer-generated bullet holes are in the CNN logo itself.

"Will" at Imagethief noticed this banner on a special page devoted to resisting "Western" media coverage about Tibet and China in general.

The graphic at the head of the anti-CNN page on China's largest Internet portal.

(Credit: Sina.com)

The text, according to Will's translation, which is about as good as I can do as well, reads: "Rise up! Angrily resist the demonization of the Tibet affair! / Chinese netizens roast CNN and other Western media!"

Here's a good Global Voices post on the general anti-CNN movement, which actually is more generally an anti-foreign-media campaign.

On a related note, I have previously reported on the patriotic "Red Heart China" campaign sweeping the Chinese Internet.

Shanghaiist had perhaps the most visually compelling post on the "Red Heart" campaign. It shows an MSN list full of hearts and a Twitter feed utterly concerned with spreading the word about the pride effort.

All this national sentiment is perhaps not unexpected, and this serves in my mind mostly as an example of the potential effectiveness of online peer pressure. Individuals not especially concerned about recent events may just be going along with the campaign. It would be awkward to be the only person on your friends' buddy lists not displaying the heart.

Sina's imagery takes it a bit further, however. I think it would have been possible to get across the point that CNN's reports have not been always the best informed--a claim I can neither confirm nor deny as I haven't been watching--without seeming to encourage individuals to turn guns on the network.

The story of Grace Wang, told in her own words in The Washington Post, should serve as a cautionary tale.

[davy.com]

that is cool
they have the right to express their feeling.
it is not sentimental, it is a kind of tolerance, the tolerance of ignorance.
what is moral? ********. CNN is the best media i have ever known.
i do hope the economy will recover soon, but from the bottom of my heart, it is better to see that CNN will sink .

[davy.com]

[rk2469]

Communists/Socialists do not tolerant criticisms. In fact, they are intolerant and closed minded bunch. They like to demonstrate while chanting silly phrases with drums and tambourine. They are cowards. Whether they are in China, Europe, or America. They demonstrate against people who won't do anything to them but they will not demonstrate against true evils of the world. You will rarely see them demonstrating against China, Sudan, Haiti, Cuba, Venezuela, or Zambawe. When they do demonstrate, they do in a safety of modern capitalized western society that they hate so much where there are no consequences of their demonstrations. You don't see these brave Mercedes Marxists demonstrating in China for the country human rights issues? You don't see these brave Mercedes Marxist HRC demonstrating in Egypt for equal rights. What these groups do is have running, cycling, or walking to bring awareness. But that's it. That's all they do. They rarely do more then bring awareness to the topic. Most of the time, their actions are very superficial but can be dramatic.

If you can recall, when Saddam was in Iraq, CNN didn't do negative reporting in order for them to stay in Iraq. What it says is that CNN cow tows to dictators around the world in order for them to profit/benefit instead of reporting news.

Now, this Jack Cafferty guy who said "goons and thugs" says that he was talking about the government, not the people. Aren't the CNN equates people with government. For CNN, are there difference between people and the government. In fact, it is called "People's Republic of China." Thus, it's "People's Republic." CNN should do more research before it says anything. Obviously, it doesn't.

[AshDK]

Communists/Socialists do not tolerant criticisms. In fact, they are intolerant and closed minded bunch.

Are you saying that other groups are more tolerant? :) I do not believe capitalists, protectionist etc are any more tolerant. Fact is, once there is "belief" and not facts involved most people will use rhetoric to argue that their belief is correct. This is common in religion as well as politics. To say that Communists & Socialists are more intolerant than other groups is a strange statement.

[dailofan]

A decade or so ago I lived very close to China and followed the government daily in the news. I used to comment the Communists were like dealing with a bunch of 3 year-old. Only see things there way and temper tantrums if they don't get what they want. I think they're maybe 7 year-olds now. But Communism will tend towards Evil. I pray the good Chinese people see this and help to bring major change.