CNN's President, Jim Walton, has apologized for Jeff Cafferty's insulting remarks about China. Not much coverage about this in the press.
Since Xinhua News Agency reported this, the Chinese government is probably closing on this issue.
The neat thing with the Internet is that now there is a record of this issue, as well as those egregious mistakes made in the past of this network. Hopefully this doesn't repeat too frequently in the future otherwise people will come out demanding for more than just apology.
Thursday, May 15, 2008
CNN President Jim Walton apologizes for Jeff Cafferty's remarks on China
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Does this certain CNN really appologize? If so, why their web page does not see any hint of it? Hornest and candid institutions and individuals stand up and are responsible for what they are doing. Chinese said a gentleman's word if made public, he will be held accountable for the consequences (in the elegant Chinese way: 君子一言，驷(四)马难追). This company makes a lot of such comments without taking the responsibility of what they have been saying. Deeply in their heritage, they are not folks appologizing any wrong doing in the widest sense of the word. Behaved themselve like barbarian: uncultivated and uncivilized folks. Sorry we could only say the name of this company was bund to the opposite side of the humanity and to the side away from the trust of the people for the decades to come.
CNN wouldn't want to appear "soft" to China in front of their core audience - that's where they make money. They need to come out a give a symbolic apology to China, because China can still kick CNN International out of China.
They are taking a gamble. They probably know that Chinese netizens will continue to bash CNN. Only time will tell this behavior having what kind of impact!
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