CNN Reporter beaten up by Chinese crowd at the Tianjin accident

[Marshmallow]

CNN reporter shoved away by grieving relatives while reporting live outside of Tianjin hospital

A CNN reporter was manhandled and pushed away by grief-stricken family members while reporting live this morning from outside a Tianjin hospital where victims of last night's massive explosion are being treated.

According to the latest reports from Chinese media, 520 people have been hospitalized due to injuries resulting from the blast with 66 people in serious condition. The death total currently stands at 44 people including 12 firefighters.

The CNN correspondent, Will Ripley, was speaking into his camera outside a local hospital when he was confronted by several angry men who demanded that he end his broadcast and delete the footage. Some are heard shouting "Stop the foreigners from reporting!" Ripley is seen saying "OK" multiple times before the live feed is cut off.

Back in the studio, the CNN anchor commented that this kind of thing happens all the time in China: "This is something that has happened many times over the years in any number of stories in China."

CNN has since issued a correction tweeting that it had been grieving family members and not security personnel that had swarmed and stopped the live broadcast.

News and information coming out of Tianjin is being extremely controlled and moderated with Weibo users complaining that their posts about the blast are being deleted. Earlier in the morning, viewers were outraged to tune into Tianjin Television and find them broadcasting Korean soap operas rather than coverage of the explosion.

CNN reporter shoved away by grieving relatives while reporting live outside of Tianjin hospital: Shanghaiist

haha...look at his expressions

 

[CNwansui]

From the previous incidents especially in Tibet (2008) and Xinjiang (2009), the government should learn a lot which they should sue those incorrect reports from foreign press (just like Singapore gov did) or just cancel their license....

It's not just that simple.if chinese governments do that,western medias would talk about nonsenses like dictatorships or human rights or some other thing for sure,even if they dropped million tons of bombs in Middle East and ally with real dictatorial country like Saudi Arabia

 

[70U63]

If you play the game smart (like what Singapore government did), you wouldn't loss the case.
They can scream and cry all they what, if they publish the wrong info to mislead the public, sue them.

It's not just that simple.if chinese governments do that,western medias would talk about nonsenses like dictatorships or human rights or some other thing for sure,even if they dropped million tons of bombs in Middle East and ally with real dictatorial country like Saudi Arabia

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Interesting he's just using a cellphone with Skype. I was expecting a camera crew.

 

[Keel]

Do Chinese people have to solve their issue with violence.

No vietcong

Tell it to the vietcongs during the riots against our factories and violence against our people
And a lot further to the United Sanctions of America whose intrusion into our air-zone has caused our pilot killed
And still a lot further to the japanese on their most gruesome crimes against humanity in China

We apply our rights appropriately when needed to the unwelcomed people who insisted in imposing their own agenda on the Public

 

[Jlaw]

It's not just that simple.if chinese governments do that,western medias would talk about nonsenses like dictatorships or human rights or some other thing for sure,even if they dropped million tons of bombs in Middle East and ally with real dictatorial country like Saudi Arabia

LOL, westerners talk bad shit about China no matter what you do. Might as well fight back now.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

He doesn't look "beaten up"

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