Multi-year study reveals western media have deep anti-China bias

Video: Multi-year study reveals media like Financial Times, BBC, The Economist, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph etc have deep anti-China bias 多年研究顯示，《金融時報》、BBC、《經濟學人》、《衛報》、《每日電訊報》等媒體存在嚴重的反華偏見

MULTI-YEAR DATA STUDY SHOWS DEEP MEDIA BIAS AGAINST CHINA. The international media is stunningly biased against China, data from a multi-year study has confirmed.

Out of 133 lengthy analyses of China in the Financial Times “Big Read” column over a four-year period, only two articles presented China positively, researchers in Hong Kong and London discovered.

Separate studies of the Guardian and the BBC showed that 90% of China stories were negatively framed.

In the researched period to July 2021, there were 576 reports on China in the UK Telegraph, of which only 2.5% took a positive stance.

ALMOST NO POSITIVE COVERAGE
In general, news media almost never published a positive report about the country, said the analysis of reports in the Telegraph, the Guardian, the BBC, the Financial Times and the Economist.

The result was that the public received a misleading image of the country, said the study by Dr Tim Summers, who led the research project involving Hong Kong and UK academic institutions.

“The British media texts researched for this paper contain almost no positive coverage of China,” Dr Summers’ paper says. “This will not come as a surprise to many readers.”

The bias of western mainstream media’s coverage of China is widely known. But Dr Summers’ team at Hong Kong’s Chinese University and London’s Lau China Institute (part of King’s College) enables a data-based look at the problem.

多年數據研究顯示媒體對中國有深刻偏見。一項多年研究的數據證實，國際媒體對中國有著驚人的偏見。

香港和倫敦的研究人員發現，英國《金融時報》「Big Read」專欄四年來對中國進行了 133 篇長篇分析，其中只有兩篇文章對中國進行了積極正面的報道。

英國衛報和英國廣播公司的單獨研究表明，90%的中國報道都受到負面陷害。

截至2021年7月的研究期間，英國《電訊報》共發表了576篇有關中國的報道，其中只有2.5%持正面立場。

幾乎沒有正面報道
對《電訊報》、《衛報》、BBC、《金融時報》和《經濟學人》的報導進行分析後發現，總體而言，新聞媒體幾乎從未發表過有關該國的正面報導。

領導這項涉及香港和英國學術機構的研究計畫的蒂姆·薩默斯博士的研究表明，結果是公眾對這個國家產生了誤導性的形象。

薩默斯博士的論文稱：“本文研究的英國媒體文本幾乎不包含對中國的正面報導。” “這對許多讀者來說不會感到驚訝。”

西方主流媒體對中國報導的偏見是眾所周知的。但薩默斯博士在香港中文大學和倫敦劉中國研究院（國王學院的一部分）的團隊能夠基於數據來看待這個問題.