After a growing outcry by Chinese netizens over inaccurate reporting, a spokesman for US news network DNN issued a statement Tuesday denying their mistakes were caused by bias.

"Our mislabeling of photos was simply caused by the fact that we, as Americans, don't know what's going on. Many of our present employees attended high school during the Bush administration. They're lucky they can even find the United States on a map."

An editor who supplied a misleading caption justified himself, saying, "I mean, those pictures were taken in a foreign country. There are lots of foreign countries, like France, and India, and Puerto Rico. I get them all mixed up." When asked about the picture taken in Nepal that was captioned as being in China, he scoffed. "Nepal isn’t a real country. It's made up, like Kazakhstan, for that Borat movie."

"While it's easy to suspect that prejudice colored media coverage, there is plenty of evidence to support ineptitude claims," noted Hong Kong Media University professor W. S. Law. "Just look at last month's article from the culture section, "Hitler's film Modern Times, a classic for the ages.'"