It is interesting to look at the same incident from different point of views. The truth is usually lying somewhere between those views, if we are lucky and caring enough to find it.
From Trent's recent entry about the CDT article, it is quite clear that the correct interpretation depends on so many things, news sources, culture/political regulation understanding, etc.
It is quite a challenging job to try to offer a objective view. I don't think I am capable of doing that. But I want to try to offer a collection of views from Chinese media about important/interesting incidents, which I can find in English and are closely related to Chinese government/people.
I think 'New observation' is a good name for this attempt. I will only list what the reporters said and where the sources are, trying hard to do this without any personal opinions. And I mainly use Google as the search engine for my results.
For the first entry under this aim, there are two pieces of news:
1. US men volleyball coach's father-in-law was killed in Beijing
Most of the results are found in all kinds of BBS. Official one is Reuters Chinese webpage. In this Reuters report, the author cited words from Xinhua, also many other comments mentioned Xinhua reported this tragedy, but I can not find the Xinhua source.
For the content of the news, they are all similar, telling about the killer's name, background, and unknown reasons for this kind of rare attacking foreigners incident.
2. Dalai Lama was in hospital and the fast gathering calling for attention to Tibet
Most of the results are found in news website, including Yahoo, Sina, VOA. But all I can find is in traditional Chinese with Hongkong, Taiwan etc indication in the website address, no simplified Chinese ones. From anti-CNN, which is famous for fighting back the fake photos from CNN about the Tibet riot this march, there are simplified comments about this news and in a very hostile manner.
The content is all the same, only differing how much the background of Dalai Lama and the Tibet riot in March were given.
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