Dog biting dog begins - CCTV and Baidu are at odds
Posted by wykslina (Sharing) Sunday, November 16th, 2008... 20:36 - This article comments on how Baidu's fortunes have been particularly bad this year, as it has managed to offend CCTV, a heavyweight even more shameless than Baidu.
This time, Baidu seems to have fallen into an endless vortex.
As the saying goes, when the wall falls, everyone pushes. In the past one or two months, negative news about Baidu has been constantly exposed.
Ever since the Sanlu milk powder cover-up fee scandal broke out, Baidu hasn't had a good day.
CCTV is no good bird either. This time, CCTV's exposure of Baidu's dark secrets may be because Baidu has taken away advertising clients that should have belonged to CCTV, causing CCTV to lose huge advertising revenue to the Internet. Don't for a moment think that CCTV has suddenly developed a sense of social responsibility and become enlightened. That's an event that won't happen in a hundred years. Plus, Baidu has always been guilty of many misdeeds. It just happened to anger the entire nation during the Sanlu incident.
So CCTV, a media leader notorious for its own misdeeds, seized this perfect opportunity to try to bring down its rival while also building up its own "good sense of social responsibility" image. In recent times, it has relentlessly pulled Baidu's pigtails.
First, it exaggeratedly portrayed Baidu's involvement in the Sanlu cover-up fee, painting Baidu as China's largest network-based criminal organization. Then, it heavily publicized the massive fine of over one billion yuan levied against Baidu due to its false bidding rankings.
Next, CCTV itself called Baidu's Beijing bidding agency manager and learned from him even darker secrets about Baidu: "Baidu employees help customers falsify information to obtain ranking qualifications."
http://blog.wyk.net.ru/WuYeKe-gouyaogoukaishiliao-cctvhebaiduhaoshangliao.html