If it's China, you need to send only bad news

I have long realized that when it comes to reporting about foreign and different countries, many or even the majority of Western news writers cannot be trusted.

I came to this realization after many years of experience of living and writing in Asia - after consistently reading news stories or news features in the mainstream Western media of places I know well in which the reports would depict a skewed or distorted representation of reality.

This detachment from the situation or ethos on the ground is surreal, and it has plunged to lower depths in the coverage of the recent Tibetan riots and their aftermath.