A photo indicating Indian policemen hauling away a man was captioned "Chinese troops parade handcuffed Tibetan prisoners in trucks" by the US-based Foxnews.com.

On the Washington Post website, a photo featuring Nepalese police thrashing a protestor was captioned "China's government is cracking down on Tibetan protestors".

In one of the many biased news reports by German media, Spiegel published a photo depicting how Chinese armed police shield themselves against stones thrown by mobsters, to declare that the "army responded with cruel acts".

As a reporter I would like to ask don't our counterparts in the Western world underscore accuracy and objectivity as the golden rules of journalism?

How come so many Western media openly call white black and distort plain facts?

"These media are exerting every means, including some extremely stupid and inferior intrigues, to blame the Chinese government for the riots, fawn on some politicians while fooling the public, so as to isolate China, make a devil of China and ultimately split China," said a Chinese in Germany.

Well said.

It's not that these biased reporters and editors are ignorant -- they have been desperately searching for piecemeal evidence against China. As the English saying goes, give the dog a bad name and hang him.

Now a word for these Western media: watch out for your credibility crisis.

The Chinese government's intention to keep foreign reporters off the potential risks in the Tibetan communities is so widely distorted and so many foreign media are criticizing China of having deprived their freedom.

The 26-member international media delegation that left for Lhasa on Wednesday, I hope, will slam on the brakes on such unfair criticism.

Let's see what these foreign reporters will say after they set foot on Lhasa.

(Xinhua News Agency March 26, 2008)