The voices from national media usually reflect the country's attitudes. When an accident happened between two countries, the third parties tend to be beyond the occurrence itself, and make some independent views.
on 23 August, a 12-hour hostage stand-off on a hijacked Philippine bus ended in bloodshed Monday, with officials saying at least seven Chinese tourists from Hong Kong were dead along with the disgruntled ex-policeman who seized their vehicle in a bid to get his job back.
This accident captures many national media's attention to coverage it. Some of them concern about the attitudes from the relative countries, some focus on the occurrence itself and the coming investigative results, some of them would like to analysis the reason and something under that.
As the relative country, Chinese media sent a severe reproof to the international society. Asking for the "concrete measures to ensure the safety and security of Chinese citizens in the Philippines", "strongly condemned the atrocity by the hostage-taker", "declared a severe threat in the Philippines", are the strong voices made by Chinese media. After a big disaster caused by and in another country, media power is the vital weapon to express national attitude - anger.
In Philippines, some journalists like Babe Romualdez, who works for the Philippines star, quickly response to the occurrence. It analysis the disaster reason, the international relationship in the coming years, and the fear factor in the tourism. He acts as a spectator, but in fact, his view certainly cling to his nation. As the headline said, "the blame game" ridicule the media voices from China and other condemned media.
From the international media's view, like TODAYonline in US, it tells the public the voices from the both countries with no bias. The objectivity is the obvious feature in this kind of news. After simply demonstrated the occurrence and the on-going process, the US media doesn't stand by any side. It informed "the Chinese government demands the Philippine government launch a thorough investigation into the incident", while give the information of "Philippines President Benigno Aquino III said the incident showed the need for more police training and better equipment" as well.
Actually, many more media in the status of the third party would like to pay more attention to the relationship between the two relative countries. Like BBC, it collected several opinions from the international media, and titled it "Angry media reaction to Manila siege" in his news reporting.
P.S: Please allow me to express my anger on this occurrence. Keep silence for the victims first. I would like to say - China, please be more powerful! We are strong enough to strike back! Don't look down upon China!
Related links:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11084273
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2010-08/24/c_13459188.htm
http://www.todayonline.com/BreakingNews/EDC100824-0000169/China-demands-explanation-after-8-Hong-Kong-tourists-killed-in-Philippine-bus-hijacking
http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=606057&publicationSubCategoryId=66
It's not only the Filipino police force that is not probably trained, but also Benigno Aquino III. Look at his attitude while giving the press briefing. He was still smiling while talking about the victims and also when he visited the site of the tragedy. As a national president representing his country, he should probably go back to the basics - learn to respect people, not to mention how to deal with the media!
ReplyDeleteThere's a joke on facebook. The name SWAT for the Filipino police force should better be interpreted as 'Sorry We Aren't Trained'.
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