China reporter held for fake cardboard-in-buns story (Reuters)

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

China reporter held for fake cardboard-in-buns story
19 Jul 2007 01:57:16 GMT
Source: Reuters

BEIJING, July 19 (Reuters) - Beijing police have detained
a television reporter for fabricating an investigative story
about steamed buns stuffed with cardboard at a time when
China's food safety is under intense international scrutiny.

A report directed by Beijing TV and played on state-run
national broadcaster China Central Television last Thursday
said an unlicensed snack vendor in eastern Beijing was
selling steamed dumplings stuffed with cardboard soaked
in caustic soda and seasoned with pork flavouring.

Beijing authorities said investigations had found that an
employee surnamed Zi had fabricated the report to garner
"higher audience ratings", the China Daily said on Thursday.

"Zi had provided all the cardboard and asked the vendor to
soak it. It's all cheating," the paper quoted a government
notice as saying.

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[babylonsister]

1. Wow. Who to believe? nt

[pnwmom]

2. Exactly. I have no idea.

But the Chinese government, like our own, has often lied before.

[babylonsister]

4. I saw the story when it first aired, and I thought it was authentic. This is

how you can make stories disappear.

[Wiley50]

6. This is how you make Reporters Disappear

in China

Soon coming to the USA

[DeSwiss]

8. I'm not sure whom to believe in China....

...anymore. But I thought this was amusing/true though:

[babylonsister]

13. Gasp! Gasp!

:rofl:

[Kadie]

3. Oh boy.

:banghead:

[karlrschneider]

5. Looks like the cardboard lobby paid off somebody.

Or not.

Who the hell knows ????????????????

[JTG of the PRB]

7. I'm sick of Big Cardboard pushing their agendas on us!

[karlrschneider]

9. Especially that corrugated stuff...

how sick is that?



:silly:

[napi21]

10. After seeing what they did to that guy who was the head of their

FDA equivilant, and how quickly it was done, I wonder if we'll see another death sentence soon?

[babylonsister]

11. Good point. That was scary. Can you even imagine here? nt

[JTG of the PRB]

12. Give it another two years and the first-ever American dictatorship.

THEN I'll say yes.

[Boo Boo]

14. Yeah. Right. /nt

[terisan]

15. Hope he doesn't get executed. nt

[ConsAreLiars]

16. It was just an audition tape for CNN. Just in case they are looking to replace Sanjay Gupta. n/t