an email to the author of the report regarding of the vt killer id
While I watched the news about a Chinese killer committed such a horrible crime in VT, I was shock dramatically... After knowing that this report is a complete imaginative story created by an irresponsible reporter in Chicago Sun-Times, I told myself that I need to do something...2@:MFZ:V"iS
And then, here comes the email I sent to her:!W&{ f#kpG
Subject: Apology requestedw CYk O0JB)E u
Dear Madam, FM-B:| M p
I am a Chinese PhD student currently living in the UK. I heard your name from the recent report on the horrific shootingin VT and apparently you announced that the killer was from China. This is a strong allegation and your irresponsible claim created unnecessary worries in Chinese communities and hurt the feeling of the student from Shanghai. An official apology for your unprofessional report is the least we can request. &?OA*u&[|
As a reporter, you should clearly know that all your reports should be telling the truth and analysing based on facts rather than creating a story based on your imagination and maybe even on your discrimination. It is appalling to read your highly inaccurate report and after the issue is clarified, what you have done is just deleting the article quietly without any further action to eliminate the negative impact generated by your report. Shame on you!
Yours faithfully, g e,ZJ7g-V \3X!S
#c8^VD c V:^&_ }m w
The email address of the reporter is [email=sneed@suntimes.com]sneed@suntimes.com[/email]. Please be aware not sending any email containing insulting or inappropriate words since we as Chinese people need to show her that we are requesting an apology with dignity and courtesyBzs-N3Z0x
.4JOZ D:G'? q4V4c/k
x}#F e4~ APk+k5?
[[i] 本帖最后由 双手插兜 于 2007-4-22 03:09 编辑 [/i]] ::p7
SP !!!
/hm#^(g_
thanks guy.
回复 #2 reservoir 的帖子
cheers mate! ::z5 ::z5 I wanna know how she makes excuses for her mistake.1q F!GN\
Maybe she was told to do so by her boss::z2
6~z)t2K@$al `@
[[i] 本帖最后由 辰雨清风 于 2007-4-22 04:22 编辑 [/i]]
回复 #4 辰雨清风 的帖子
she was told by sb blah blah blah...finding an excuse would be a piece of cake for her since she has the capability of creating UNTRUTHFUL stories You did a great job, proud of you. As one of Chinese, I always support you~~~~ pround of you and what you have done
ths for your job proud of you and what you have done |} G){,G
ths for your job good job:loveliness: ............Have you got the reply from her?? thx u guys!!! ::z3 ::z3
hC(B8E Ks
actually, i am not expecting any reply from her. I just want to let her know that we, Chinese, are united wherever we are. This email just sends out a signal to her that think it again before doing anything like this. Hopefully, she can learn her lesson from this issue... admire your bravenessd2O7x#d!?\ g+I6\ N
yet I can understand her mistake. people of such occupation may suffer from the haste for a highlighted reportW'Nrz,Ijh&m L
anyway, hope your advice will remind her
回复 #11 lincoln_8513 的帖子
well, highlighted or not is not relevant at alli4C V OFT
whether she followed the code of conduct as a reporter is the key
d8ERoX&^
everyone deserves a 2nd chance, so as the reporter, but the bottom line is she must face up the fact that news reports are not creative writing assignments. If she is fancy with eye-catching stories, probably it's time for her to pursue a new career as a novel writer rather than a professional reporter.
?:C O(jyc
we sometimes easily forgive somebody without any firm principle, which would only make things worse Plainly and simply, there is something very, very wrong with the US news media. I would say an apology is well deserved but you're definitely not going to get it. To most Americans, there is no different between China and Korea (much like how to most Chinese there is no difference between Canada and the US) and furthermore there is no cultural stigma associated to any society when an individual gains infamy. The stigma, if any, goes to the people close to that individual, like family, and nobody else. The audience won't understand that there is even an issue here. Yes, I said the audience. In the US that is what matters..M-h.{+P YM+cgu
$H hHcA
There used to be something called "journalistic integrity" but that has washed away over my lifetime. I've tuned myself out of American TV for the most part but from what I read, the new mantra is "if it bleeds it leads". In the US the news media works for profit, and to the automatonic network TV executive ratings equals profit. Decency and good taste are only considered so far as to keep from losing too many viewers, whereas indecency and bad taste are typically what gains viewers. The news has turned into an entertainment industry-- a competitive entertainment industry at that. The faster they spew out new "facts" and "details", regardless of their factuality, the more viewers pay attention. If they spend the time to actually verify statements someone else would report it before them.
I myself don't know of any respectable American news source. I've only seen ones reporting speculation and on things which are by nature not news. They do things scarily wrong down there. So, good luck getting your apology. I don't see it coming but it's not impossible.
回复 #13 maebus 的帖子
I would like to point out that no other US news agencies quoted the report of Sun Times which I suppose suggested a sort of maturity of American news media. By contrast, news media in Taiwan got over-excited by the report.回复 #14 tesolchina 的帖子
American news publications tend to know which other American news publications have bad reputations and react to them accordingly. I'm not overly familiar with that particular publication but Wikipedia tells me it's a tabloid. (Tabloids are not taken seriously.) Reputation, in the form of not publishing any false information as fact, is still held important in the US, however the offending news agencies (including TV news) tend to speculate when the facts are not yet known. Speculation is simply not news, can wrongly associate people with events, and is used in the US to promote political agendas. (Fox news being a documented example of such)S w&EG8dUHG}!~ U.d8OP(q
I would suspect news agencies in Taiwan have a political agenda to push as well, and this particular bit would fit right into it. It sounds like they took something published as news in the US as news. I don't know enough about how Taiwanese news agencies work to guess if they would knowingly rebroadcast false information or just have not bothered to verify their sources.
回复 #15 maebus 的帖子
it sounds strange that us publications pay great attention to the reputation...maybe some... [quote]原帖由 [i]双手插兜[/i] 于 2007-4-22 01:50 发表 [url=http://e.taisha.org/redirect.php?goto=findpost&pid=8525697&ptid=813714][img]http://e.taisha.org/images/common/back.gif[/img][/url]'Kk-KR k'Og#xID _I am a Chinese PhD student currently living in the UK. I heard yourname from the recent report on the horrific shootingin VT andapparently you announced that the killer was from China. This is astrong allegation and [color=Red]your irresponsible claim created unnecessaryworries in Chinese communities[/color] and hurt the feeling of the student fromShanghai. An official apology for your unprofessional report is theleast we can request. d*m.b,mw8w
[/quote]
The red part sounds like a loser to me. proud of you man!! this is wat all chinese should do!
回复 #16 mouyp 的帖子
There is a great amount of care put into it by news agencies which want to seem respectable. Not all of them do, but the better known ones tend to. It goes so far as not reporting any falsity as fact but does not include things like sticking to news only or proper ethics. The problem is that they only have to be "reputable enough" to appease the public, so they can be lax on conduct and get away with it. The thing is, it is very easy to have logically true statements which suggest untrue things. All it takes is a few little words which a large number of viewers omit. It's bad to the point where if I read a second-hand report of breaking events in the US as written by Americans between themselves the distinction between fact and speculation is for the greatest part lost.回复 #19 maebus 的帖子
that's true and thanks for your great replyactually i am not familiar with the rules that us publications should obey as well as our Chinese,"vGCz E ?
but i know that the truth of the news is the basic principle the reporters should pay great attention to.V @j7U*A x^7w0?^
as in China,some of the local news agencies or even some illegal news institutions are out of
control,they can report some news which even haven't happened actually,and sometimes the public don't have the ability to distinguish from that...you know the buzz is horrible and amazing... so some falsity or even unhappened news are communicated.
there are three facts we should pay attention to : U#|4@-T@K+D X
first,some agencies are out of control though the government is efficient and great efforts have commited
second,some reporters have lost the faith of ethic,they just wanna persuit the monney and +W x/jb lvB7@
somethingelse
thirdly,the public or the society should be educated and let them know that they have the F~&?a|2C
duty to accuse ,to distinguish ,to surveilance so and forth [quote]原帖由 [i]comeoff[/i] 于 2007-4-28 18:40 发表 [url=http://bbs.taisha.org/redirect.php?goto=findpost&pid=8570734&ptid=813714][img]http://bbs.taisha.org/images/common/back.gif[/img][/url]
A,u9D/z y a
The red part sounds like a loser to me. [/quote]!fpw yQ ^
3]d E axk"C"c
haa, if u r really confident, then u would not be afraid to say that u worried about the issue.
页:
[1]