Fraud News Fake - Only in China
Fake fraud news, only in China? Reporter held for fake cardboard-in-buns story
From the story,
"BEIJING (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 flavoring."
Hmm, now which fraud story are we supposed to believe, the first or the second? And why?
Tim Johnson asks:
"So are they going to execute the reporter?Turns out that China says that story you may have seen last week about a snack vendor in Beijing who was putting chopped cardboard in his steamed buns rather than minced pork was all a fake.
Let me tell you, that story got picked up by a lot of newspapers in the United States, where I am temporarily, because of concerns about food quality coming from China.
The newscast, aired by China Central Television, was seen by tens of millions of Chinese viewers. It showed the vendor soaking the chopped cardboard in caustic soda, then adding pork flavor and fatty meat before stuffing the bogus steamed buns."
