On Monday (11 April), Rebecca MacKinnon, Global Voices Online co-founder and former CNN journalist, was interviewed by core members of Anti-CNN website. This is a significant event as the Anti-CNN website was launched to counter the western media's (represented by CNN) reports on the Tibetan unrest and crackdown in May last year. As it has been pointed out by Rebecca during the interview that many people regard Anti-CNN a community of 50 cent for spreading Chinese government's propaganda. This interview can give people a glimpse of this community of patriotic young people. The conversation was mainly about western media “impartial” and “bias” report on news related with China, including Tibet issue, Olympic torch relay protest. Rebecca has written a detailed summary in Rconversation. She expects to see more interaction between the Anti-CNN community with the outside world: My purpose in doing this interview was primarily to understand the Anti-CNN community better as part of my book research. Communities of enthusiastic, patriotic young people like the Anti-CNN volunteers are part and parcel of the phenomenon I call cyber-tarianism. It will be very interesting to see how the Anti-CNN website continues to evolve. Rao Jin (founder of the website) has plans to develop an English-language platform – with a less provocative, more friendly name – through which his community can engage in dialogue and debate with the English-speaking world. I think it's great that they're looking to expand their dialogue and engage with the world. It's important that the outside world understand that China's patriotic youth, like young Republicans or young Tories, feel that they are acting on their own belief systems and get angry when characterized as brainwashed puppets. It will be fascinating to see how the outside world reacts to these efforts, and how the Anti-CNN website administrators handle conversations that foreigners want to have with them involving events, people, or points of view that Chinese websites are generally required to censor in order to avoid being shut down. In the Anti-CNN website, the organizer has transcribed in brief the conversation in the forum and here is a selection of carry on discussion: happy: 看完了，至少代表了一个理性的国外记者的成熟看法，当然，我听得出来她对一个没有自由，特别是没有舆论自由国家的失望以及不满，当然分寸都是恰到好处，可以通过网络审查聊起来。 再者，Rebecca回答问题中流露出来的西方思维以及那些关于独立思考、言论自由、动机和目的区别对待的理性精神，都是我们“先天”缺少的，这种对话很有意义，真实多了。比看100条CCTV新闻联播内容有收获多了。 Moreover, western ideas of independent thought, freedom of speech and rational thinking that differentiate means and ends are implicit in her answer. These are something we missed in our culture. This kind of conversation is very meaningful and concrete, a lot more fruitful than 100 items in CCTV news broadcast. superstar: 感谢Rebecca。相对来说，对中国的看法比较客观。 不过Rebecca的回答，也没啥新意。西方人对中国的看法都那样，我们国家重要的还是自己解决好发展的问题，其实不太用得着别人如何看。 当然，实际上CNN们的某些针对中国粗糙加工或者巧妙加工的新闻，我感觉他的读者并非西方人，而是我们中国内部。西方人充其量也就是个看热闹的，好点的也就是同情加理解而已，品行不端的可能期待着乘火打个劫什么的。 我想，实际上，中国跟西方的交流已经越来越多，虽然中国对西方某些方面保持着自我保护。但随着中国国家不断的发展，自信力的增长，针对中国的双重标准的事情会越来越少。我们会逐渐的敞开胸怀拥抱世界。 However, there is nothing new in her answer. Westerners share similar view on China, we have to solve our own developmental problem and should not care too much on others’ opinion. My feeling is that the main audience of CNN's cropped photo and carefully processed news are Mainland Chinese, westerners are onlookers. Some with good intention may read it with sympathy, some with vice intention may take advantage of it. In reality, there is more and more communication between China and the West. In some aspects, China is being self-defensive. However, China will gain more confidence when it continues to develop and there will be less and less double standard judgment towards China. We can embrace the world then.