Source: John Sexton, china.org.cn:
The Western media are again ramping up attacks on China over the Google hacking incident. On February 18, the New York Times (NYT) named Shanghai Jiaotong University and Lanxiang Vocational School in Shandong as sources of last December’s phishing attacks on Google, Adobe and other US companies.How credible are the allegations?
While the NYT simply cited anonymous sources close to the investigation, a subsequent Guardian article identified them as from the US National Security Agency (NSA).
One would have thought that, having been led up the garden path on Iraq, journalists would no longer treat anonymous leaks from intelligence agents with such breathless credulity. But unfortunately the quest for an eye-catching headline often trumps doubts about a story.
In a February 21 follow-up article, the NYT cited Scott J. Henderson, author of a book on Chinese hackers, without informing readers that he is a former US military intelligence officer who was once stationed in Beijing, or that his book, Dark Visitor, is available free for download on the Internet.