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Well that 'apology' included everything except an actual apology. If you're 'happy to' apologise, then say it!

This reminds me of the time of the miners strike, when a television report on national news showed a film clip of an empty coal train crossing the viaduct in Mansfield in Nottinghamshire. The commentary referred to the fact that no coal was leaving the nearby Sherwood Colliery and that the blockade was working.

Local people would identify that the coal train was in fact heading towards the colliery!

We should never forget that television can easily misrepresent the facts and we rely on the honesty and integrity of the people involved to present the situation fairly.

It is a matter of degree as to whether an apology is necessary. If the reports are only in the Shanghai Dental Technicians Weekly .........

After watching the youtube report, i was stunned by the well thought out counter attack by the chinese on the bbc's james reynolds, it really does go to show you that the chinese are not really that opressive at all & we can now look at them in a different light, having said that it takes a biiger man to realise his mistake to publicly, and im sure a little humiliated to apoligise.

Thanks, Jon, for this blog. And actually, CCTV news channel (something like ±«Óătv news) did have coverage of the torch relay protests and there were pannel discussions on this topic on the channel.

How many Britons will see this apology? when the hurt is made, twice difficult to mend it.

How about the using ambulance to demonstrate "heavy military presence" thing? I saw you said you made a mistake. but you didn't apologise. I feel that one also needs an apology. Don't you think so?

What more? The ±«Óătv London torch relay live coverage commentators happily call grabbing torch as peaceful protest. Should they not apologise?

Why did the ±«Óătv make too many mistakes in such short period and all regarding China? Coincidence? I hope so.

You should also apologise for your bias boardcasting on torch relay in london.

I think that not just this news mislead all audience from ±«Óătv. We chinese has been keeping all what ±«Óătv reported, reporting about chinese news, these for future eviedenc to sue ±«Óătv unfair, truthless and mislead all of worldwide audience, we will let ±«Óătv pay us back.

Dear Editor,

I appreciate your effort and thanks for your apology (as insincere as it was). However i can't help pointing out the following:

1. James said in his report: "The Chinese Communist Party has a simple rule, it won't show any pictures which ruin this country's idea of a trouble-free games". Evidently, this rule does not exist and I feel this remark was extremely unprofessional and self presumptious. James Reynolds seemed to me, lacks some of the most fundamental professionalism of being a journalist. Most importantly it gave out the wrong message to, and misled, the British general public about the modern China, ONCE AGAIN. I can safely say that the damage, which had already been done by repetitive broadcasts of this report through ±«Óătv's main channels, is so great, that your apology on this blog simply could not justify.

2. I also noticed that you particularly made a point on the fact that when the report was initially broadcast there weren't yet any report of the event in Chinese Media. However, I would like to point out that I saw the same report repeated on ±«Óătv's midnight news on 6th April. The same report stayed on ±«Óătv's website for several more days. Doesn't the ±«Óătv have a continuing fact checking responsibility on the stories you put on air? I think you can see why it's hard for me to believe the ±«Óătv's impatiality.

I belive it is only appropriate, if the ±«Óătv apologises, and more importantly, makes corrections of its mistake on the same programs that it had broadcast this false report. Otherwise, as a ±«Óătv Licence payer and a Chinese citizen, I would have no choice but to seek further justice from Ofcom.

Regards.
Jia Xu

This is not the only thing you should apologise, and don't pretend this to be just another caseul mistakes you make by playing it down towards the end. ±«Óătv would never be forgiven by Chinese people.

The result of your coverage over the Olympic relay in London is a more united China. So thank you.

James said in his report: "The Chinese Communist Party has a simple rule, it won't show any pictures which ruin this country's idea of a trouble-free games".
This is not just the issue of the wrong suggestion. This is totally a biased, jaundiced, one sided view, which is totally anti China. I am very dissapointed in your news reporting service lately. I guess now what we are hearing is being edited to what you like us to hear.

±«Óătv was my favorite media before the Tibet incident. But now, I realize that ±«Óătv coverage of Chinese issue are full of lies.

If ±«Óătv doesn’t fire the biased correspondences, ±«Óătv’s reputation in Chinese community will be (has been) deeply damaged.

Jon just gave us an excuse for James’s “mistake”.
But I don’t understand why:
1,James used several times “won’t”. How dare a journalist judge the future events based on his silly bias?
2, it took ±«Óătv 2 weeks to realize this “mistake”?
3,Jon said “at the time James's report was compiled no Chinese media had reported the protests…..” How many Chinese media had ±«Óătv checked at that time? I am not going to be fooled by this kind of excuse.

When you make a mistake, you need to apologise. That’s right.
When you deliberately make a “mistake”, for ±«Óătv won sake, apology is not enough to recover its reputation.

apologise not accepted by me, a Chinese individual. I see you did not realised what you have done wrong on the 6th April in London, which your apologise is much more needed.