外交部对道歉唔收货，召见CNN驻京代表
BEIJING, China (CNN) -- The Chinese Foreign Ministry said
Thursday that CNN has not done enough to ease its concerns over a
commentator who referred to the Chinese as "goons and thugs" and said
products manufactured in China are "junk."
 China's foreign ministry complained after CNN commentator Jack Cafferty made the remarks on April 9.
The Foreign Ministry lodged a protest with CNN's bureau in Beijing on
Wednesday evening and said a CNN statement, issued Tuesday, failed to
adequately apologize for commentator Jack Cafferty's remarks, according
to a report Thursday in the state-run Xinhua news agency. The
network's bureau chief in Beijing, Jaime FlorCruz, said he was summoned
on Wednesday evening to meet with Liu Jianchao, the senior Foreign
Ministry spokesman. He said the spokesman told him that the ministry
did not view CNN's statement about the comments as an apology.
Cafferty made the remarks in question on April 9, as CNN host Wolf
Blitzer was comparing today's China to that of 20 or 30 years ago.
"I don't know if China is any different, but our relationship with
China is certainly different," Cafferty said. "We're in hock to the
Chinese up to our eyeballs because of the war in Iraq, for one thing.
They're holding hundreds of billions of dollars worth of our paper.
"We are also running hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of trade
deficits with them, as we continue to import their junk with the lead
paint on them and the poisoned pet food and export, you know, jobs to
places where you can pay workers a dollar a month to turn out the stuff
that we're buying from Wal-Mart.
"So I think our relationship with China has certainly changed," he
said. "I think they're basically the same bunch of goons and thugs
they've been for the last 50 years." He issued a clarification
of his remarks Monday, saying that by "goons and thugs," he meant the
Chinese **, not the Chinese people. A CNN statement
issued Tuesday said "It was not Mr. Cafferty's, nor CNN's intent to
cause offense to the Chinese people, and (CNN) would apologize to
anyone who has interpreted the comments in this way." The
network said Cafferty was offering his "strongly held" opinion of the
Chinese **, not China's people. It also noted that "over many
years, Jack Cafferty has expressed critical comments on many
**s, including the U.S. ** and its leaders." The Chinese Foreign Ministry criticized Cafferty's comments this week.
"Cafferty used the microphone in his hands to slander China and the
Chinese people (and) seriously violated professional ethics of
journalism and human conscience," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu
said Tuesday at a news conference, according to China's state-run
Xinhua news agency. She said Cafferty's remarks "reflected his
arrogance, ignorance and hostility towards the Chinese people, ignited
indignation of Chinese (at) home and abroad and will be condemned by
those who safeguard justice around the world." In the days
following his remarks, however, the Legal Immigrant Association
launched an online petition condemning his statements as "racist" and
"despicable" and demanding that CNN discipline Cafferty and apologize
to the Chinese people. Nearly 45,000 people had signed it as of Tuesday
afternoon. In the petition, the LIA describes itself as "a
leading organization of legal immigrants mainly comprised of people
from China." According to its Web site, the nonprofit group is based in
Santa Clara, California, and was founded in 2007 as an organization
"dedicated to the social well-being of employment-based immigrant
professionals." The state-run English-language newspaper China
Daily also said in an editorial Tuesday that an apology is called for,
calling Cafferty "pathetic" and noting, "it is rare for the world
audience to hear such a blatant discrimination against an ethnic group
of people with such a derogatory connotation." Others angered by Cafferty's remarks were urging a boycott of CNN's advertisers.
In its statement, CNN said it is "a network that reports the news in an
objective and balanced fashion. However, as part of our coverage we
also employ commentators who provide robust opinions that generate
debate."
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發表於 2008-4-17 16:35:43
