China ethics plea after fake buns

China's propaganda department has called on journalists to strictly adhere to news ethics.

The instructions came in the wake of a case in which a reporter was caught faking a story about buns made from cardboard.

The Chinese Communist Party heavily controls its media, deciding what people can and cannot publish and broadcast.

But it seems that it cannot always stop reporters simply making up stories.

In recent weeks China has been following a series of reports about low food and drug safety standards.

The most captivating story of all came a few days ago.

Zi Beijia, a reporter for Beijing TV, ran a report about a food store that mixed cardboard into its pork buns as a cheap ingredient.

His report showed workers mushing the cardboard into a sludgy mix and then adding it to dough and pork.

Police then raided the store. Workers admitted that they had added the cardboard - but at the suggestion of the reporter, who had apparently grown frustrated that he had found nothing wrong with the store after spending 10 days spying on it.

The reporter is quoted as saying that his aim was to become famous. He succeeded - but he also got arrested.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6913979.stm

 

ewwww cardboard......-sick2

imagine people eating it.......

e.g.

"ooo this bun tastes a bit weird...."

"yeh dun worry bout it....its only a bit of cardboard..."

 

^i guess at least it cant kill you, but the story was a fake anyways

 

thank goodness it was fake...lol

 

how well do we know its fake though it already stated that the media is heavily controlled by the gov't

 

its sure time to make people more aware of ethics...
if u see al those fraudulent cases of the last time....problems which shoudn't arise when people are aware of ethics ....
but being a journalist can be dangerous sometimes and especially in china.....>> see Ching Cheong case..

 

hhmm ... fake story? or cover up?

 

we obviously dont know for sure, but not everything in this world is a conspiracy

 

I wouldn't say completely fake... there WAS cardboard served into the ingredients... only at the demand of the reporter.

 

This is no surprise. China always has ethics issues.
Whether it's food, humans, products, etc.

 

I heard about the fake buns on CNN, a reporter went to Chinatown somewhere in US and interviewed how people were affected by this incident. But I didn't know the story is a hoax.

 

it's not fake...i've heard it everywhere....and it's not only pork buns...a lot of other foods too....china shouldnt try to advance so fast....cuz everyone else can just destroy their economy