Last week, BBC has been the topic for all Chinese internet forums: on Juy 29, BBC has published a news in Chinese supported by an eight year old picture of Chinese police officers to support its claim that Chinese authorities will be violating media freedom and monitor hotels in Beijing where foreign visitors will stay during Olympics.

It has been discovered that the BBC has used the same old picture for at least six times to support its accusation of Chinese authorities, 26 August 2000, 20 July 2001, 23 September 2002, 23 July 2006, 25 October 2006, and then 29 July 2008. At the same time when this has become the topic, the Western media was spreading another news that the Chinese authorities has been blocking Chinese citizens from viewing the BBC Chinese website. If it was blocked, how could Chinese internet users found the BBC malpractice.

What is more shocking is the fact that during the last 8 years, the uniforms of Chinese officers have long been changed. The laziness of BBC journalists and effortless attacks of Chinese backwardness have made themselves notorious to Chinese readers. As a result, the public credibility of BBC in China is seriously under threat.

Another recent example is the fabrication of Western media that Chinese police were beating Tibetan peaceful demonstrators by using pictues or videos mixing scenes of Indian or Nepalese police violance with Tibetan demonstrations as evidence. In reality, the innocent Han or Musulmane Chinese were the victims under violent attacks from Tibetan violent mobs. Later on, some news articles published by the same media have put one sentence in bracket: Chinese authorities have banned western journalists from Tibet. But whatever happens, a media has no right to fabricate news to talk about something it does not know.

When the media habitually fabricates news, how can you ever believe their news reports. One has to ask how much is true, how much the Western media use pictures or video tapes from their archives to fabricate a new event?

No doubt BBC has become even more notorious in China.

Source: wqllxl, Tiexue.net, 1 Aug. 2008, "BBC在8年中先后6次使用的一张“中国邪恶”照片！”（BBC has used a "evil China" picture six times in eight years）.