BBC, London - We haven't done much reporting on this so that must mean the mendacious asiatics have done even less. Probably for sneaky, asiatic reasons. Source: BBC

I'm not

Community notes guys tend to be big "Technically Correct" guys too

The guardian article about it was so ridiculous in this regard as well

Lmao all the sources I've seen analyzing the cause of the disaster were Chinese, without explicitly seeking those out, and on the local news they cite casualty numbers given by the Chinese government

Its wild. You can go on chinese language news media from China and see them posting about it with video and images

Then bbc et al take those images and video, repost them and say China is censoring the media

Fucking insane

Weird cuz I first heard about this on rednote. I feel like there's a concerted effort on the part of Western governments and media outlets to portray China in a negative light. Has anyone else noticed this?

I’m going to repost the comment I posted in the News Mega because for whatever reason seeing this tripped a fuse in my neural network:

YouTube launched in 2005, Twitter launched in 2006.

It’s been 20 years since the start of so-called New Media and these ghouls are still trying to control the narrative.

Their only answer is to ban Tik Tok rather than adapt.

When the boomers die off and no one watches the news anymore, it will be a blessed sight to see these places go down.

It must be so easy to be a western "China expert"

Step 1: Twist something the Chinese government does that is perfectly normal or even a good thing, and just claim it is actually a bad thing.

Step 2: If what they are doing is completely impossible to twist into a bad thing, just pretend they aren't doing it, lie about them and say they're doing something else evil and horrible instead.

JingJing is having none of it

jesus fucking christ, nothing is off limits for these freaks

a tragedy of unimaginable proportions occurs and the first thing that comes to mind for them is "how can we spin this to make china look bad?"

Did you know? Although the BBC in the UK is regulated by Ofcom (for all the good that does), the BBC World Service is not under its jurisdiction and therefore does not answer to any regulatory body at all. There is no one trying to keep them honest even on paper, they are fully allowed to lie as much as they want about anything without being held to account and, as we can see here, they do.

Australian broadcasting corp was pushing the same line. I haven't looked into it but would be deeply shocked if it was true - CCTV was screening stories on natural disasters etc when I was in china ~15 years ago...