Jennifer Hsiung is an anchor of CCTV 9. Recently when she's writing about her vacation on her blog, she got complaints saying that she's showing no love for China. I'd like to quote Jennifer's reply here. Because I can't agree more with her. "Maybe you should talk about the earthquake and stop flaunting your vacation. It just shows you have no love for China." Jennifer Hsiung 于 2008-05-28 11:27 回复内容： Hope you're not a lawyer, or plan to become one, because that argument won't get you very far in court. Forgive me for flaunting my vacation. As a writer, I write best when writing what I know, what I experience. I'd rather be reporting from Sichuan than copyediting stories at a desk. Blogging about the earthquake would be nothing but a regurgitation of what's been circulating in the newswires, what you watch every minute or read about in headline news hour after hour. It's important, that's why it's being covered heavily by all media outlets. If I posted a blog about something I read or edited, it would not come close to the real life experiences of the earthquake victims, which I cannot even begin to fathom. It's unfair to draw a direct positive correlation between me writing about my dear sister's birthday celebration in Thailand instead of writing about the quake, to me therefore having "no love" for China. It's heartbreaking that so many people have lost their lives, most being children. It's devastating that so many of the bereaved could do nothing but stand around the rubble hoping and praying that their loved ones would make it out alive. And it sucks even more that I can't donate millions of dollars to the relief effort. But this I know I can do: my best at work, even if it's polishing stories instead of reaching out to tell the stories of those in the epicenter. You're assumptions are premature and very hurtful. Perhaps I am not flaunting about the earthquake because it's just too damn painful, and everytime I think about it I just want to cry. http://blog.cctv.com/detail_1491_91515_1.shtml

All the warm hearted friends, please log on these two websites to check your donations. Ministry of Civil Affairs of the People's Republic of China http://www.mca.gov.cn/ Shanghai Civil Affairs Bureau http://www.shmzj.gov.cn

Yesterday Premier Wen Jiabao flew to Mianyang again and gave a speech themed on “ Duo Nan Xing Bang” in a temporary primary school. “ Duo Nan Xing Bang” literally means more disasters will make a country flourish. Yes, we did get a lesson from the snowstorm last winter. The relief actions are more effective and the news resource is more open. President Hu Jintao urged the top priority was to save lives. Compared with the situation in Burma, China won a good reputation. Meanwhile a lot of Chinese people especially the new generation born after 1980s think it’s time for CNN to close its inurbane mouth. Because of the Si Chuan earthquake, people see the strong patriotic passion of new generation whom used to be regarded as a generation without any care for others. Now they put “ I love China” on their MSN name, wear T-shirts with the image of “ I only love China”, stopped going shopping at Carrefour and persuade more people to donate money to the victims. But does it mean we can put more hope on this generation only because of their intense patriotic sentiments? Besides passion should they do more? I didn’t put “ I love China” on my MSN name. I didn’t wear any patriotic T-shirt. I still go shopping at Carrefour. But I watch TV everyday to follow up the relief activities: how many people have been saved and how is their living situation now, how the donations have been transformed and what kind of things are bought by this money, how the government work on this issue, is there any corruption exist… I believe at this moment we need more actions than tears. We need more real journalism than dramas. We need more supervision than force of donations. Till now CCTV 9 is the only channel I have seen talking about the supervision and it’s in English. Most of the other Chinese speaking channels are showing the touching moments around the clock. Yes, it’s worthy seeing how Chinese people caring about each other. But to journalism is it enough? Last night I saw an interview between a CCTV journalist and a 68 years old Sichuan citizen. He was interrupted on his way to go back home. The journalist looked much sadder than the old guy and she insisted to check his luggage. Because the old guy couldn’t understand mandarin, the journalist asked for an interpreter to help. After checking the luggage and some common questions, the journalist said: “ Don’t waste your time any more, please go back.” But who was wasting the old guy’s time? What is the real care? As disaster happened, we need journalism to report the truth and we also need the journalism to work as supervision. My dearest journalist, TV news is not the stage for you to show what a warmhearted person you are. I’m glad to see that there are more and more news conferences hosted by the provincial government of Sichuan to report the relief works. It’s only thirty years since our opening up policy. We still have a lot to learn on disaster aid relief and how to face to the international media. I hope this is the real meaning by “ Duo Nan Xing Bang”.