When I turned on my TV today, CNN reminds me of the 20th anniversary of June 4th. CNN news crew on the Tiananmen Square jostling with Chinese with unbrellas was quite a scene, which, to CNN, was the kind of “man-biting-dog” news material. And no mistakingly the anchor made a big fuss about it.

Twenty years? To a nation of 5,000 its nothing. But to a China that changes so much that a city map has to be updated on a monthly basis, it is almost a generation long. The millenials born immediate before and after the incident have no idea what it is. Do the Chinese trust CNN? Or does CNN have any credibility in China? Yes, twenty years ago. Certainly not today, especially after its what the ordinary Chinese conceived as lopsided coverage of the Tibetan riots last year. By the way, a riot that involves arson and killing of innocent lives are not to be condoned by any country with whatever form of government. CNN and some of the Western media lost the Chinese on that through some misteps caught by the Internet-aware Chinese. “Don’t behave like a CNN” （做人不要太CNN）has become a buzz word, in which CNN becomes a synonym of something the Chinese dislike. So much so that some built an anti-CNN Web site.

I am not young (but not too old) and can’t help calling back the lingering memory of “Who lost China” debate in the U.S. when Communists ran the Nationalists out of mainland China in 1949. That was history (and soon June 4th will become history, too). Looking back, people may ask the same question: Who lost the Chinese youth who used to look to the Statue of Liberty as their model? CNN didn’t help in gaining them for sure.