Rebecca MacKinnon: Anti-CNN? – China Rants

www.pekingduck.org — The Peking Duck points to an error that CNN made about their former Beijing bureau chief, Rebecca MacKinnon, as an example that all the Anti-CNN supporters in China can take lesson from. Basically, CNN doesn't specifically target China with a negative light - it just makes lots of mistakes and generally produces very poor news coverage - it's nothing personal.

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fredster 2 years 40 weeks ago

Good article. But, while I 100% understand that time crunches and undertrained personnel lead to stupid mistakes, ignorance or doing a shoddy job is not a good excuse. Especially when you're working in a global media outlet.

Ryan 2 years 40 weeks ago

I couldn't agree more.

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