摘要
When devastating floods struck Zhengzhou in central China in August 2021,BBC journalists reporting on the disaster claimed that they encountered a lot of verbal abuse,both online and in real life.Chinese netizens accused BBC journalist Robin Brant of factual distortion and rumor-mongering at first,but things got slightly more out of hand as they resulted in a standoff between the BBC team and a group of angry locals.A statement issued by the BBC after the happenings claimed that their reporters were attacked by the"mob."
