More Poor Reporting

One more example of poor reporting:

"BEIJING (Reuters) – China denounced a protester at Cambridge University who threw a shoe at visiting Premier Wen Jiabao, but nevertheless hailed Wen's visit as a success and avoided widespread reporting of the incident."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090203/wl_nm/us_china_britain_shoe

The problem with this piece of news? They say China avoided widespread reporting of a shoe thrown at the prime minister, but later in the same piece of news they admit the foreign ministry included the shoe in a press release on their website. Oops.

Want one more? The issue was even brought up in the main evening news on CCTV, in a nationwide broadcast. They reported the facts as is and proceeded to note the visit still achieved it's goals and that a shoe won't affect UK - China trade relations. Oops again. That piece of China Brand News was brought to you by Chris Buckley and Yu Le; Editing by Nick Macfie and Sanjeev Miglani. They suck. Their reporting had an outright wrong fact in the midst, and using this they drew wrong conclusions.

OP Out.