China: BBC lambasted for stock photo inaccuracy

Global Voices OlympicsFollowing the fear-mongering perpetuated this week by (actually pro-surveillance) American senator Sam Brownback that China will be spying on attendees of the Olympics in their hotel rooms, anti-CNN.com has localized the story by looking at how the BBC covered it in the current anti-CNN front-page exposé post, ‘British Brain-washing Channel [sic] (BBC) Lies again!’

通过搜索,我们发现这张图片至少6次被BBC作为”当前“新闻配图引用过,而相关新闻的时间跨度长达8年!

Following a search, we discovered that this photo has been used as “current” to accompany at least six times for news that spans eight years!

So following the one above, the anti-CNN.com community was able to dig up:

★★故事二★★
发生时间:2006年10月25日

【06.10.25 BBC】异议人士李建平网上撰文被判监禁
【链接】http://news.bbc.co.uk/chinese/simp/hi/newsid_6080000/newsid_6084400/6084460.stm

Oct. 25, 2006
Dissident Li Jianping locked away for online writings
link

★★故事三★★
发生时间:2006年7月23日

【06.7.23 BBC】中国建立“互联网黑名单”
【链接】http://news.bbc.co.uk/chinese/simp/hi/newsid_5200000/newsid_5207600/5207640.stm

July 23, 2006
China establishes “internet blacklist”
link

★★故事四★★
发生时间:2002年09月23日
【02.09.23 BBC】The cost of China's web censors 中国网络检查的成本
【英文链接】http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/2264508.stm

Sept. 23, 2002
The cost of China's web censors
link

★★故事五★★
发生时间:2001年07月20日
【01.7.20 BBC】China acts on net ‘addicts’ 中国对网络'痴迷者'展开行动
【链接】http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/asia-pacific/1448423.stm

July 20, 2001
China acts on net ‘addicts’
link

★★故事六★★
发生时间:2000年08月26日
【00.08.26 BBC】China tackles cyber squatters 中国打击“域名抢注”行为
【英文链接】http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/897413.stm

August 26, 2000
China tackles cyber squatters
link

And one user was even able to find another case, also from the year 2000:

是故事的终结篇吗?也许不是
故事七
发生时间:2000年8月21日
【00.8.21 BBC】Jiang backs China's net growth 江泽民支持中国网络发展

Is this story just a summary? It might not count
Story seven
August 21, 2000
Jiang backs China's net growth

A few cherrypickings of the first of four pages and growing of comments on this thread:

实在服了西方媒体记者的”敬业精神”.
这张照片怎么看怎么象是两个武警在学上网.

‘China's Big Family':
This really makes a joke of western media journalists’ “professionalism”
Is it me or does this photo just look like two wujing learning how to use the internet

。。。。现在都液晶显示器了,还用这么老的显示器做新闻图片,他们是不是认为我们这8年就没发展啊,造假也太没水准了吧

dreamerxiao:
We use LCD screens now, how could a photo with such an old monitor be called news? Do they think we haven't been developing here these past eight years? They can't even make fake news properly!

西方民主的所谓新闻自由,难道不负任何责任吗?不负责任就叫自由呀?哦,西方就是要让中国不负责任呀,不负责任以后,他们就有机会了

piaoyi:
So in Western democracy's so-called press freedom, is being irresponsible the way to be responsible? Irresponsibility is just freedom? Sure, the West just wants China to be irresponsible, so that when it is, then they'll have their chance

Update:
see BBC Recycles Same Photo Over Eight Years, EastSouthWestNorth

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