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Byline: Melinda Liu; With Mary Hennock in Beijing and bureau reports
As rulers successfully crush sympathy for Tibet at home, they stir it worldwide.
It didn't take long after the outbreak of violent protests in Tibet two weeks ago before China's well-oiled propaganda machine roared into overdrive. Within days, the Web site of the state-run Xinhua news agency was offering neatly packaged facts and figures on the turmoil, while CCTV released a video of what it called "the March 14 beating, smashing, looting and burning incident." Domestic media painted a graphic picture of the Lhasa bloodshed--the blood shed by ethnic Chinese, that is. According to ...