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Originally Posted by LostInTranslation
It's probably better to ask that question to the protestors. I wouldn't know, as I didn't go to any of these rallies. I think my time would be better spent here communicating.
You can probably get a better understanding if you watch the video I posted, depicting why these people were protesting against these "deliberate" errors. Most errors in journalism were unintentionally made, but this "won't show" thing wasn't one of them. Worse yet, it was repeated many times AFTER it became obvious that it was wrong, based on the wrong presumptions.
As you have said before, national TV draws in millions of viewers, while Mr. Williams' blog may only have thousands of readers. It just doesn't look like a sincere attempt to apologize to me, does it?
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That seems a fair criticism. The BBC has often been accused of putting too much opinion into its news stories, rather than just sticking to facts. This seems an example of that, and the blog apology was the least that might have been expected (I guess no media organisations like to apologise for their mistakes.
If it makes Chinese people feel any better, the BBC has also been accused of being anti-American, anti-Israeli, anti-Palestinian, anti-Zimbabwean, anti-UK government, anti-Christian and of being biased on the subject of manmade global warming. Pretty much every mistake is pounced upon by partisans of one side or another. Like most western media outlets, the BBC tends to report bad news much more than good, which can give negative impressions of the countries it reports on. This is true of China, where the majority of BBC news coverage is of mine disasters, food scares, riots, environmental problems and suchlike. But it's also largely true of BBC coverage of the UK and other countries too.