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I was very angered by the report that allegating drug abuse by Chinese 
woman team. If there is a case, they should prove it, not allege it. It 
becomes a fashion that every thing related with Chinese should be 
sensationalized, otherwise it does not make the news sell. 

In the latest edtion of Time, the illegals costs 2 billion each year - but that
is only one side of the story. Some one comes out with net contribution to 
U.S. economy by illegals at 25 to 30 billion by the surplus of property and 
income tax. CNN did not want to mention the surplus thing, but the negative 
thing, then picked up a handful Chinese for the responsible.

Well, this women swimmers story shows the media are getting sensitive now.
Last Sunday, New York Times made a report on the Chinese National Day Parade.
In its caption, it reads "New York's Chinatown Celebrates Communist China".
One reporter of NYC saw this caption and then called the Editorial Board at 
once. She warned the NYT could be sued since this caption means all Chinese who 
took part in could be Communists, and that was not true. So, the later edition
came out as "New York's Chinatown's Celebrate Parade".

I think, these should be viewed as our achievements as we have been fighting
with CBS. Only when we have made strong voices, can we be heard. No one
wants to get into trouble with a story. For CNN, when they found themselves
were under fire, them backed off in time. For CBS, they want to keep their
face this time, but next time they have to be careful.

It is exhuating to fight all those ill-intended stories, but if the results 
are that those media will learn a lesson and keep themselves in line, then we
have something to Cheer.


Mi Mi Sr.

Feng Wang <fwang@edzo.ucs.ualberta.ca> wrote:
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Subject: CBS report on Chinese women swimmers

Hi, folks,

Have you watched the recent CBS report on swimming WC and Chinese women
swimmer (last Sunday, 2:00pm)? This time CBS did have a balanced view
from Chinese Coach. But CBS didn't  mention any possible drug abuse
in American swimmers.

There'll be another CBS report on WC this coming Sunday. Watch out!

Regards.

Fred