Beijing complains U.S. media were quick to blame Chinese student for shootings

Source: International Herald Tribune/Associated Press

Beijing complains U.S. media were quick to blame Chinese student for shootings
The Associated Press
Published: April 18, 2007

BEIJING: China said Wednesday it was regrettable that some U.S. media were quick to blame a Chinese student for the Virginia Tech shooting rampage.

Police identified the gunman in the attack that left 33 dead as 23-year-old Cho Seung-Hui, a South Korean native. Cho was a U.S. resident and had been in the United States since 1992, federal officials said.

But in the hours immediately after the attacks when the killer was identified only as an Asian man, there were media reports in the United States that said he was a Chinese student who had received a visa from the U.S. Consulate in Shanghai.

"Some U.S. media made irresponsible reports on the Virginia Tech shooting before finding out the truth, which violated their professional morals," Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said, according to Xinhua News Agency.



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Its not the first case of ill reporting...nor the last.

They said the shooter was an Asian male.

And it should be pointed out to China that after the two shootings in the dorms the police were looking for a white man with greasy hair driving a pickup truck.

You a holes don't need a mentally ill student, you do it yourselves.

Hypocrisy is the American Way.

We do not give a crap if China is offended at our media reports in the immediate aftermath of this tragedy. Get over it. As if they have room to criticize after the horrible things they have done. I also have another bone to pick with you Chinese.....Quit poisoning our pets with your toxic wheat gluten and rice gluten. Our government may not give a shit about our animals as long as the U.S. and Chinese corporations make their billions, but American citizens are angry. Eventually your crappy food products are going to get into the U.S. human food chain and people will actually pay attention. :rant:

"Some U.S. media made irresponsible reports on the Virginia Tech shooting before finding out the truth, which violated their professional morals,"

Journalist who work for the corporate media will do anything they are told. The corporation's only loyalty is to more and more profits no matter who gets hurt. Morals among corporate owned journalists is a thing of the past.

That was reported on the BBC.

that a Chinese citizen did the crimes, and the time it was revealed it was not a Chinese citizen.

If they apologized AFTER they knew the man was born in South Korea they would look foolish.

But they were very gracious in their apology. I assumed they had info on the guy's identification. Guess not.

to suppress the truth from their own people and the outside world? fuck those guys..

:rofl: Good one!

The media in china is the government. They dont have an independant thought without the government telling them to.

If you ever make it to china or have the right sattelite check out CCN9, the chinese mainland english channel.

Endless propaganda but the news is truely a laugh. Endless stories on military exercises, how tawian is so terrible and how
people there are burning themselves to death due to debt. Endless rubbish on pointless meetings with foreign dignatries and
how all our minorities (uighers, tibetans, mong, mongols, etc) are all so happy in the motherland...

PUKE....

They deliberately make up the facts all the time. When someone else muddles up a bit and goes off half cocked and they get upset,
what a JOKE.

a lot of us seem to have cognitave dissonance when it comes to telling the "little brown people" apart over here, I guess the "little yellow people" aren't any different :eyes:

them little yeller skinned commies? - Future words of Rush, Sean? Perhaps, in a pre-Imus world. I am just waiting for some talk radio asshole to say some shit like that. But, we probably have to wait a week or two.



My spousette is Japanese. Each nation takes serious pride in their differences from other asian nations and peoples. Between Korea and Japan, there is 2000 yrs of history of issues, wars, competition, and similarities, while they both agree that they have serious differences in culture, language, customs, as well. It is safe to say that the japanese feel superior in some ways over the Koreans. It is safe to say that the Koreans return the favor. It is also safe to say that both Koreans and Japanese feel superior (for almost identical reasons) over the Chinese. AND the Chinese feel superior over the Koreans and Japanese.

So, while some here (in America, not DU) may scoff at the Chinese reaction, it is not a laughing matter. Face - honor - respect - these things are hugely important everywhere in the far east, and given our president's behavior of the past 6 yrs, is totally unimportant to our leadership here.