BBC News lies about Chinese news media -BBC新闻关于中国媒体的谎言

I’ve been in China nearly a year, and every day I read BBC news as well as a number of other sites through Google News. Today I noticed a story about China cancelling an Oasis gig (this news is actually around 5 days old, but still, I wondered what the reason was for the cancellation).

我在中国近一年了。每天我都看BBC新闻并且通过Google新闻看很多其他网站上的新闻。今天我注意到了一条是关于中国取消了Oasis的演唱会（事实上这个新闻是5天前的了，但是我还是想知道取消的原因。）

To my suprise, I was greeted with the news that the Chinese government had cancelled their gig due to their ‘Free-Tibet’ ties. I thought this was a little extreme (since I doubt Noel and Liam could find Spain on a map, let alone Tibet). Reading on, the BBC detailed some more performers who had been refused entry or had controversial appearances, including Bjork:

让我惊讶的是，我听到的新闻是中国政府因为乐队成员‘藏独’的关系而取消演唱会。我觉得这有一点偏激（因为我怀疑Noel和Liam是不是能在地图上着到西班牙，更别提西藏了）。继续看，BBC还详细提到了其他表演者遭到拒绝或者引起争论的内容，其中包括Bjork：

“Last year, Icelandic star Bjork shouted “Free Tibet!” after a song about independence performed during a Shanghai concert, which went unreported in the state-controlled Chinese media. ”

“去年，冰岛明星Bjork在上海演唱会上表演完一首关于独立的歌以后大喊‘藏独’，此事没有被由国家控制的中国媒体报道过。”

Unreported? That’s weird…I’m sure I remember reading about it somewhere…Probably in local blogs…

没被报道吗? 很奇怪…我肯定在哪里读到过… 很可能是在当地的BLOG上…

http://www.danwei.org/music/raise_your_flag_declare_indepe.php

http://shanghaiist.com/2008/03/04/did_bjork_actua.php

Oh yeah, that’s right, it was in my local newspaper:

喔对，在当地的报纸上：

http://www.shanghaidaily.com (search ‘bjork’ 搜索‘bjork’)

…oh and in that other newspaper, the national one:

…喔，还在另外一份报纸上，全国性的：

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2008-03/07/content_6518698.htm

…and on this one:

…还有这里：

http://www.china.org.cn/culture/2008-03/13/content_12484616.htm

…oh yeah and on that um website thingy..you know…the big state-controlled media one…

还有网站…要知道…这是最大的国家控制的媒体…

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-03/07/content_7740989.htm

The last line of the Xinhua article is particularly unreported:

新华文章中最后一行特别没有指出的是：

“It [China's Ministry of Culture] said it will tighten the scrutiny of foreign artistic groups coming for performance in China to prevent similar incidents from happening again.”

“文化部将在进一步调查核实后，依法进行处理，并将在今后对外国来华演出的文艺团组进一步严格把关，防范类似事件再次发生。”

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-03/07/content_7740989.htm

http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2008-03/07/content_7741004.htm （Chinese/中文）

Thank liberty that the BBC is now on hand to break this news - almost on its anniversary!

感谢民主，BBC现在及时发布了这条新闻-差不多在它的周年纪念！