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一段时间以来，新闻的客观性原则已经被西方媒体践踏得一塌糊涂。对西藏314打砸抢烧暴力事件进行报道时，西方媒体完全抛弃了对事实的尊重，将中国政府维护社会秩序，保护群众生命财产的举动，描述成暴力镇压。
西方部分国家政府更是在此事上大做文章，拐弯抹角地表达对藏独分子的支持。甚至有媒体进行移花接木，乃至无中生有的诬陷。德国多家电视台将尼泊尔、印度警察和民众对抗的图片说成是中国政府镇压藏民图片。多伦多本地媒体的歪曲引导性报道更是连篇累牍，触目惊心。笔者大叹：西方部分新闻工作者的职业道德哪去了，良心哪去了？
在此类舆论的引导下，西方民众作为旁观者，大约可分为几类人。这分类在昨天329中国留学生爱国示威活动中，笔者对西方旁观者以及藏独示威者的采访中尤其明显。
第一类，不明真相，无个人看法和观点，只是单纯地针对藏独分子与中国政府的势力悬殊，进行对弱者的同情。此类人并不深度关心实事，往往至多浏览一下报纸新闻的标题，而这类标题一般有隐晦的引导性质。这类人的正义感被别有用心的媒体所利用，占民众的大多数。
昨日下午便有几名貌似大学新生的年轻人，站在藏独后不远处高呼几声FREE TIBET。当笔者问及其动机，这几名年轻人坦然道之。原来他们对整件事情了解并不多，只是认为中国留学生人多势众，而西藏独立示威方面却只有三五个，令人同情，并且敬佩他们与主流，与政府抗衡的勇气。
第二类，个人看法观点十分明确，坚决支持藏独，大肆宣传诸如CHINA LIE， PEOPLE DIE的口号。这类人当中，大部分人甚至没有去过中国。他们有关西藏的了解，往往来源于西方近年来一些哗众取宠，别有用心的报道与书籍。
昨日在藏独方面笔者对一些摇旗呼喊藏独口号的加拿大本地群众进行采访时，发觉他们自封是真相的守护人，自由的捍卫者，在阅读了歪曲事实的报道后他们更加理直气壮地认为在中国，人权话语权以及宗教自由都是被镇压的。笔者询问其自认对中国的看法是否客观，他们竟悲天悯人地声称马路对面的爱国学生们才是被中国的媒体所蒙骗欺哄。
第三类，静观其变。此类人往往受过高等教育，针对问题能进行理智的思考与客观的分析。这些人有能力以中立的态度阅读西方煽动性新闻报道，思维与立场不受舆论影响。
这些人在西方群众中为数不多，在昨日的采访中笔者只观察到不到十个。但此类人作为本地群众，拥有着相当的话语权。正如笔者在采访时需要声称自己是加拿大籍才得以缓解采访对象的敌对态度并得到真实的回答一般，华人的话语权在西方传统媒体几乎是不存在的——按大部分西方群众的想法，华人早已受到中国政府的洗脑与蒙骗。
这第三类人，才是我们需要争取的。他们中立的态度和无偏见的本质，使他们在面对证据确凿的事实时有能力用公正的语气进行评论。而他们作为西方民众的客观身份给他们的意见带来分量，从而得以缓解无良媒体在西方造成的针对中国的负面影响。
分析到这里，不得不说西方国家关于314事件的态度令华人痛心疾首。刚刚访问过中国并从中国得到数十亿欧元定单的法国总统萨科齐毫无道理地将骚乱与北京奥运会联系起来，扬言将抵制奥运会，前后态度形成鲜明对比。西方国家对中国政府的态度以及处理行为进行歪曲，并在这歪曲的基础上谴责，呼吁中国政府在应付骚乱时进行“克制”。
笔者并不是西藏问题的专家，但对一些国外暴乱的镇压还是有印象的。92年美国洛杉矶暴乱，01年英国北部城市BRADFORD暴乱，05年澳大利亚悉尼郊区种族骚乱，以及05年法国巴黎的骚乱。西方政府在面对此类危机时，并没有什么“克制”，更谈不上容忍。与此相伴的关键词应当为警察、军队、飞机、装甲车、马蹄、催泪弹、高压水枪以及镇压、铁腕。最为讽刺的是，05年巴黎的暴乱，当时的法国内政部长，既为现在的法国总统萨科齐，在骚乱发生之初就力主用强硬手段对付骚乱，指出所有的暴力事件都是有组织的活动，政府将抓出幕后主使者。他表示政府不会让“闹事者、一伙流氓认为他们可以在这个国家胡作非为。”并声称要用高压水枪“清除”郊区的“乌合之众”。
就是在这样的媒体环境以及政府态度下，出现了以上笔者总结的三类旁观者。笔者意图质问，究竟谁被媒体蒙骗了？谁被政府引导了？在藏独支持者指责中国留学生被洗脑，被中国政府所控制的媒体蒙骗时，笔者想指出这些留学生长期生活在国外，对中西方媒体报道都有着详尽的了解。这样知己知彼的情况下作出的结论，表达的态度，相对西方民众单纯在西方媒体报道的引导下所得到的观察，到底哪个更客观？究竟是谁谋杀了真相？
Tibet: Who's Being Brainwashed?
Recently, in reporting the Pro-Tibet Riots, the Western media has completely walked all over their professional ethics. Respect for truths and facts have been entirely discarded by depicting mistreatment and repression out of order-maintaining attempts by the Chinese government. Many Western officials expressed their support for the Tibet Independence Movement. Moreover, there are even cases of framing with fictitious pictures and captions on part of the Western media. Pictures of Napal and India riots were captioned by many Germany television stations as beat-downs of civilians by the Chinese government. The whole event was treated with disgrace, and news manipulation is appallingly blatant.
Under current circumstances, talks regarding history is decidedly useless. Why? Well, people reading the newspaper and watching news report can basically be classified into three types.
Type 1 scans over the title and pictures, which are usually misleading, provocative with implications. These people have very little knowledge regarding Tibetan history and the whole story line, nor do they have any strong interest.Misled by the media, which portrays China as a evil country where people have no rights, these readers simply admire the courage of the Tibetan Independence Movement, and they represent the majority of Canadian people.
Type 2 are most definitely Pro-Tibetan Independence. Most of these people have never been to China, the rest of them once or twice. They have read too many political tabloids for their own good, and consider themselves freedom fighters(hah!) and guardians of human rights. They claim there is no religious freedom in China, and that certainly is their basis for everything, and they are certainly believable, since presumably they have lived their whole life in China and have never seen a church there(lol). These people take every chance they get to say that political censorship in Chinese media brainwashed Chinese people to be ignorant pawns for the Chinese government, and that they carry the responsibility of releasing the truths to these people and to the world. But really, do they have the truths? When asked if they consider themselves objective, their responses usually are something like this: "I've read a lot on this." In English? From a foreign point of view? Well so have I, in both Chinese and English. So who's more objective and who's brain washed?
Type 3 are the most objective people of the masses. These people have the ability to dissect a topic with clarity and objectivity. It is not absolute objectivity that I talk about here, but they do have the sense to see the problem from both sides, which is very rare in the masses. It would be most wonderful to present these people with evidence of the riots being, well, riots. They possess the real right of speech , which is not granted to Canadian Chinese people. Our opinions are deemed as personal and biased, or to say "brainwashed". It is implied racism in its most forward form.
The Chinese community resent the mistreatment and distortion of the truths in Tibetan Riots . The president of France (Sarkozy), who has just returned from China with multi-billion euro deals, immediately and irrationally associates the rioting in Tibet with Beijing Olympics. Boycotting Olympics in Beijing appeared in Toronto newspapers with a ridiculous air of importance, and Poland has announced to boycott the Beijing Olympics entirely. Under these media influences and directions from the government, the masses are not to be blamed for the unanimous attack on China.
I am not an expert on historical problems, but I do have some very vivid memories regarding western treatment of riots. Need I mention? '92 LA, '01 Bradford in England, '05 Australia Sydney suburb beaches, and '05 Paris. I especially would like to mention something very interesting. Nicolas Sarkozy, interior minister of the time, declared a "zero tolerance" policy towards urban violence after the fourth night of riots and announced that 17 companies of riot police (C.R.S.) and seven mobile police squadrons (escadrons de gendarmerie mobile) would be stationed in contentious Paris neighborhoods. The families of the two youths killed, after refusing to meet with Sarkozy, criticized Sarkozy for the latter's use of "imprecise, warlike semantics", while Marie-George Buffet, secretary of the French Communist Party, criticized an "unacceptable strategy of tension" and the not less inexcusable definition of French youth as "scum" (racaille, a term with implicit racial and ethnic resonances) by the Interior Minister, Sarkozy. "Restrain" much? I will take a wild guess here and say that you who are reading this right now, have always been very attentive to news, and I would like to remind you of the responses taken by Western governments during the aforementioned riots.
I also would like to recall the long-standing Quebec problem in Canada. The different attitude of the Canadian government, in responding Quebec and in viewing the similar situation regarding Tibet and China, make a very sarcastic contrast of their own policies.
Why this double-standard attitude?
The Western Pro-Tibetan Independence people claim that the protesting Chinese visa students, immigrants and Canadian Chinese are misled by the censorship of media in China, and are being fooled by their government. However these are people who have lived in Canada for long periods of time, some their entire lives. They have been following news, both in English and in Chinese. There is no denying the censorship of news in Chinese media, but these people recieve information from both sides, which they then compare, contrast and overcome the distortion on both ends. Only under this context they come to the conclusion they come to, and make the decision they make, whereas the Western masses only receive distorted information through the Western media, and the lack in comparison of sources result in biased opinions.
Therefore in my position as a well-informed Canadian Chinese, I question: who are being misled by the media? Who are being fooled by their government? |
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发表于 2008-3-31 00:21:40
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