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Reuters Interviews Rich Crank, Concludes Luxury Bikes Are Cool In Greater China
Foreign commissioning editors get a lot of pitches like this: “The Chinese are now watching Homeland / eating caviar / behaving like us.” These activities usually owe to the fact that a few...
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Understanding Jackie Chan, Chinese Nationalism, And Double Standards In...
In a December interview on a Phoenix TV talk show, Jackie Chan made comments that Western media have recently described as “anti-American” — …really? First, the words, as translated by Ministry of...
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China Rises One Spot In Latest Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom Index,...
Do journalists in China really face a tougher environment than Vietnam, Cuba, Sudan, Yemen, Laos? According to the French non-profit Reporters Without Borders (RSF), yes. China (173rd, +1) shows no...
View ArticleIllustrious China Correspondents Powwow As Asia Society Launches New Blog,...
A maraschino cherry has just been dropped into the Long Island iced tea of the China blogosphere, as Asia Society officially launched its new blog, ChinaFile, on Tuesday. The occasion was highlighted...
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German TV Crew Attacked In Hebei Province Just Outside Of Beijing
The Foreign Correspondents Club of China recently got wind of an assault on a German TV crew yesterday in Hebei province and published this statement: The crew, belonging to ARD television, narrowly...
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Which Leading Chinese Business Paper Just Got Hoaxed By Paul Krugman...
Congratulations go out to The Daily Currant, whose “Paul Krugman Declares Personal Bankruptcy” piece on March 6 has found its way across the world to net one hell of a big, clueless fish. They’re not...
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Chinese Weekly Falls For Another Spoof, This One Claiming Kim Jong-un’s...
The lovably gullible editors at 21st Century Business Herald must really hate the genre of satire now. Just last month, this Guangzhou-based business weekly, one of the largest in the country, fell...
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David Barboza Wins Pulitzer For The Wen Jiabao Story That Got The New York...
David Barboza’s expose on the extent of Wen Jiabao’s family’s “hidden riches” has won him a Putlizer. He beat out the Associated Press for its coverage in Syria and Richard Marosi of the Los Angeles...
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BBC Actually Aired This? John Sweeney’s Unethical, Horrible North Korea Hack Job
Just about anyone not holding a select diplomatic or South Korean passport can travel to North Korea. All it takes is money, which you give to a tour agency. They’ll even take you to the countryside...
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Chinese Government Is Really Sick Of Its Publications Falling For Satire,...
The “falling for satire” bit is our little extrapolation, but what other funny way to explain this? Via SCMP: “All kinds of media work units may not use any unauthorised news products provided by...
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Today In Wonderful Moments In Chinese Media: This Photoshopped Dog And His, Um
Via Austin Ramzy of Time, here’s Beijing Evening News’s photoshopped picture of a dog pissing on a car. The title of the article, as if it matters at all, is, “No harm to tires; still, don’t let it...
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It’s Not A Sin To Work For Global Times
“Is it a sin to work for Global Times?” asks the headline to a recent SCMP blog by Amy Li that launches into an account of a recent, unpleasant and viral Weibo exchange between a reporter from the...
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Did The Economist Really Depict Xi Jinping And Barack Obama As Gay Cowboys On...
The Economist has a bizarre regional cover this week. Never mind that it’s tasteless and will surely be interpreted as homophobic by many of its critics. NEVER MIND THAT. Let me isolate the cover-line...
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The Independent’s Front Page Identifies Random Dude In Red Shirt As Edward...
We don’t really have an explanation for this. Edward Snowden is back in the news in a big way — he left Hong Kong and is traveling to either Cuba or Ecuador via Moscow — but check out what the...
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CNN Compares Edward Snowden With A Red Panda
CNN: What do NSA leaker Edward Snowden and a red panda at the National Zoo in Washington have in common? We’ll roll with it. Wha’chu got? Absolutely nothing. Damnit! Tricked me again, CNN! Except that...
View ArticleHere’s Video Of A Korean News Presenter Saying “It Is A Relief” Asiana 214...
The Wall Street Journal has a follow-up to a Chinese state media article we linked to yesterday, in which a South Korean broadcaster, while trying to express relief that the two girls who died on...
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SCMP Reporter Who Interviewed Jack Ma Accused Of Editorial Tampering, Resigns...
The SCMP reporter who got Alibaba chairman Jack Ma on record comparing his leadership decisions with Deng Xiaoping’s during the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown has resigned after being accused of editorial...
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Chinese Reporter Stages Feel-Good Story, Passes It Off As News
It didn’t seem too good to be true, because why wouldn’t you believe that a little girl, she alone amongst dozens of passersby, would squat with her pretty umbrella to help an unconscious street...
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CCTV Falls For Virgin Atlantic’s April Fools Joke
Of course Chinese media was going to fall for an April Fools joke. But we expected Beijing News to bite it, or People’s Daily, or 21st Century Herald (similarity: they’ve all been duped before, e.g.,...
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Xinhua Falls For Satirical Borowitz Report That Bezos “Accidentally” Bought WaPo
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times, shame on… you, I guess. Fool me four times, shame all around. Fool me five times, does your mother know you’re doing this?...
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