China's flag raised in Wall Street

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-09/30/content_11369969.htm

Another long news story I red recently. At the first glance I thought it may be a financial story, but then I was surprised when I began to read the text because I was misled by this news’ topic. It said “China’s flag raised in Wall Street”, especially the “Wall Street”, naturally led people to think this would be a financial news story which concerned China’s development on economy and their commercial accomplishment. And that was exactly what I thought primarily.

In fact, this was a story focused on the celebration of the 61st anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. It used writing about a ceremony to draw audiences’ attention to the Sino-US relationship and Chinese culture.

This piece of news story was totally different from my other chosen readings before, because it attached many relevant news photos. This method endued the story with vividly and gusto. Also revealed this was not a hard writing but a news story lean to interest. At the first place, there was a photo which attached by a piece of commendatory. In the picture, it showed many people, Chinese and foreigners standing in the street, Wall Street, together, waving small flags, China’s national flags or US national flags. The second picture showed people were dancing in front of the flags, to celebrate. The third one showed a woman. She might be a conductor, was leading a band to perform congratulant music or national anthem. According to the introduction, this was the flag-raising ceremony. We could see from the photo, after the woman, a Chinese national flag was rising higher and higher. The last picture almost showed the same scene, but in this picture, the most emphasizing spot is the statue of Charging Bull, it was one of the New York City’s icons, also stood for Wall Street, which is the most famous financial district of all the world.

It also provided interlinks of related readings in this news story. But this time, these relevant readings were not so “relevant”. I thought this was unacceptable especially when it appeared on a formal official news web site. It uncovered the editors’ and writer’s carelessness and the sense of lack of responsibility.