Abstract
It's an open secret that the western media will always reflect in negative light what is regarded as unfriendly or threatening by the Western world. It appears that China finds itself in this position. But while it's true that China's media sources are routinely censored and notoriously unreliable this does not provide the Western media with an excuse to publish and broadcast misleading images of China that prevents people from understanding this country. This controversy has been around for a long time but began to spread after the monks' protests in Tibet last March. Beijing singled out Western news outlets that produced allegedly biased coverage of these events. Why raise this issue when it is know that the Chinese authorities control its national media and prevent foreign journalists from seeing everything they should be able to see? At this time, the critics weren't just the Chinese government, but also from the Chinese netizens from all over the world.
