They are Sh*t! They don't respect any copy right(Translate articles from american medias in a crap way and mislead the readers by their-I'm-expert-nonsense). They know nothing, even a piece of ****. I'm quite sure one of them who visits this site frequently and writes some crap articles which quote partial of posts in this forum to fool chinese readers. Get out here! No offend. I'm a Chinese.
that's what Ive been suspecting for a while. but hey, here's the best collection of articles and news about Rockets on the net, why bother searching through the net on your own? it saves them a lot of time covering rockets.
I like to hear what Yao got to see to the Chinese media. He is a lot more open and candid when talking to Chinese media.
Chinese media does like to use their imagination a lot, rather than sticking to truth, and they are 100% bias.
I like reading stuff in the Chinese media. While I know the United States try to write the news paper to a grade school level, the Chinese media has a lot more serious writers working for newspapers. Just think of bunch of Franblineburies or even a Time's article instead of the tipical newspaper with straight facts. There's a lot more personal takes and touches on the the chinese newspaper articles. Not the best source as far as facts goes but definitely a interesting read, atleast I always enjoy it. The best U.S. example of this would be once again the Fran Blinegurys article for the Steve and Big O's chat.
Finally I find someone speaking out my mind. Totally agree with you, buddy. Actually I sometimes visit these two sites for Rockets/Yao. But I am frustrated with their creditibility. I especially hate the following three: (1). They translate lots of articles from American media like Houston Chronicle. This is OK, considering no many Chinese reportors stay with Rockets in Houston. But I hate that they never indicate it's a translation rather than original writing; (2). For those articles written by themselves (I mean the ones about Rockets and Yao), I'd like to say they are composed of 5% of facts or quotes (most of are out of context), and 95% of imagination; (3). And the worst thing is, these articles extremely like to stir thing and forge stories (like Yao/Steve, Steve/JVG, relationship, etc.). I know that readers tend to like reading this kinda shxt, and media are intested in these news. But please, don't write by imagination.
reminds me of an american news agency. FOX yea i would agree with you that FOX news leans to the right in political covrege but CNN ABC NPR PBS CBS and NBC all lean to to left of center in their political covrege NPR and World link TV are considerd ultra left and their politics make limbagh look like a centrist so whats your point ?
well, if we did that then we would also have to stop posting information from the espn boards, hoopshype and hoopsworld... I don't take things that seriously anyway, sometimes its fun to read stuff that isn't true, as long as you know it could be false.
The Chinese Government owns both Sina and Sohu? WOW! F*** Bill Gates the Chinese Government are the biggest monopoly ever!
This is BS. You totally wrong. Yes for highly-politics related articles, they might be influenced by government. But for sports news like the craps somebody posted here, they are controlled by NOBODY. To be extremely candid, they are only controlled by MONEY. Whatever methods they can employ to make readers excited and interested in, and can gain high hit rate, they will write in that way, even thought that might sacrafice facts and creditibility. This is not related with government, but simple, pure seeking headlines and making money.
gosh. this thread sounds like the same stuff we write to bash vecsey, ford, and other sports columnists in the states...
No doubt what the Chinese sports media publishes should be taken with a grain of salt, but I would be more convinced if any of you guys can actually give some examples of their alledged fiction making.
look no further http://bbs.clutchcity.net/php3/showthread.php?threadid=67449 and worse http://sports.sina.com.cn/k/2003-11-03/0130641945.shtml come on panda.
michecon: I didn't read the other thread at first, now I see where this thread is coming from. In the two articales I saw conspiratorial interpretations stirring up conflicts to attract attention from the reporters, but, as far as fabricating stories as alleged that's not what I call a case in point. Those reporters are heavily biased, they were just making bad interpretations in favor of Yao all the time. It's bad journalism but not so much as making fictions. I read those articles to get quotes and I believe some of the stories are largely true(like Yao's childhood stories and funny game recounts) - I can't get those things from the American media. I caught the American media fabricating stories about Yao too, once they said Yao was robbed from his family by the Chinese government to play basketball, or Yao couldn't block shots at 7'6", or Yao was an outside jumper shooting player in the CBA etc... anyway, I'd say on the whole the American sports media is more neutral than the Chinese counterparts, with its own downfalls in terms of accuracy. That's not gonna stop me from reading sina.com though because, 1. it's easy to distinguish what part of it is the reporter's own conjecturing from their simpleton type of writing style. and 2. I'm in the know as a clutchcity.net member and can't be fooled, or at least I hope.
