Bo Xilai, rumour journalism, Western prejudice and China’s Internet crackdown

Wei Ling Chua — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:25:32 +0000

- How rumour journalism works?

Chinese police have arrested six people and shut 16 websites after rumours were spread that military vehicles were on the streets of Beijing. Without factual verification, such unsubstantiated internet rumour has gone viral internationally as a sign of instability and power struggling in Beijing following the arrest of Bo Xilai last month.

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Evidence of Murdoch’s newspapers distorting news to fuel racism

Wei Ling Chua — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 05:07:52 +0000

Media disinformation and negativity against non-Western cultures in Australia is a terminal disease spreading into the bloodstream of the mainstream media industry in Australia. The following incident demonstrated how easy it is to demonise a Chinese restaurant in Melbourne through the manipulation of news using the techniques of factual omission, misleading heading, misleading bullet-point-highlight, misleading bold-highlight and the editorialising of content using a series of subjective and strong wordings to sell the personal opinion of the journalist or editor as news.