Yellow journalism at its worst

The American Cable News Network (CNN) is making news about China - again. Last time, cnn.com editors cut out more than 10 stone-throwing Tibetan mobs from a news photo, leaving only a riot police wagon to show the so-called crackdown. It made millions wrathful at the naked show of photo-doctoring.

This time, an amateur anchor railed at the Chinese people, calling them "goons and thugs". He went on to describe Chinese-made goods as "junk".

Sixty-six-year-old Jack Cafferty, in a TV program called Situation Room that was aired on April 9, was obviously unhappy with China "holding hundreds of billions of dollars" of US paper deficits, with more and more American consumers "buying from (inexpensive) Wal-Mart", and certainly with the world's "changed relationship" with China, moaned: "The Chinese are basically the same bunch of goons and thugs they have been in the past 50 years."