From an anonymous Western correspondent: This precisely what is wrong with American international news reporting. The NYT in this case quotes this Xinhua editorial, calls it embellishment and then immediately debunks it with a quote from a former official allowing him to call it blather.. except that if you break it down, every thing this Chinese editorial is saying in this paragraph is the absolute factual truth. Has there not been U.S. rendition and torture? Doesnt the U.S. admit that its drones kill civilians and didnt the Brazilian president at the U.N. General Assembly have a thing or two to say about being spied on? But would the NYT or any American newspaper be able or willing to just acknowledge that? NO. That is the fatal flaw in American journalism when reporting on the world: it cannot see U.S. behavior in the world objectively. Without that there is no true international reporting. If a newspaper cannot empty itself of its own national biases--and this goes for any nation--it cannot report on the world objectively.
Posted on: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 05:12:12 +0000
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