Comments on: Today In Shitty Journalism: MSNBC, E! Online, Mail Online, And Hollywood Reporter Are Among Those Who Got Trolled By Fake Quote

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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of China Copying Everyone Else | Skeptikai — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 11:56:08 +0000

[...] breasts in 3D. In April, MSNBC, E! Online, Mail Online, Hollywood Reporter, etc. all fell for a satirical quote attributed to China’s State Administration of Radio, Film and Televisi…, and embarrassed themselves precisely because they ran the quote as fact, failing to cite its [...]

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Wed, 28 Nov 2012 08:29:14 +0000

[...] April, MSNBC, E! Online, Mail Online, Hollywood Reporter, etc. all fell for a satirical quote attributed to China’s State Administration of Radio, Film and Tele…, and embarrassed themselves precisely because they ran the quote as fact, failing to cite its [...]

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nude, movie, Titanic, 3D, censor, box office — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 20:02:48 +0000

[...] wasn’t just the Chinese media that were fooled. Like sheep to the slaughter, foreign entertainment magazines – including Entertainment Weekly, E! Online and the Hollywood Reporter — dropped the [...]

By: Chinese ‘Titanic’ Fans Ask, Where’s Our 3-D Nude Scene? | Times of News

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 22:03:47 +0000

[...] wasn’t usually a Chinese media that were fooled. Like sheep to a slaughter, foreign party magazines – including Entertainment Weekly, E! Online and a Hollywood Reporter — forsaken a [...]

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Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:46:31 +0000

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By: » The Situation Is Excellent: The Week That Was At Beijing Cream Beijing Cream

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 05:39:05 +0000

[...] lot of sensible websites got trolled by a fake quote, and we’re still waiting for them to issue corrections. Here are pictures of Beijing emptied [...]

By: Beijing SHOTS » A Story About Journalism (Or, Why Details Matter) in USC gunshot

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 01:41:38 +0000

[...] bright side, though: you’re not as bad as the entertainment websites implicated in our previous “Journalism”-tagged post. None of them have issued corrections, and for crying out loud, they published a fake [...]

By: » A Story About Journalism (Or, Why Details Matter): The Implications Of One Small Associated Press Editing Error Beijing Cream

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:20:29 +0000

[...] side, though: you’re not as bad as the entertainment websites implicated in our previous “Journalism”-tagged post. None of them have issued corrections, and for crying out loud, they published a fake quote. /* [...]

By: Alia

Alia — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 16:28:28 +0000

I though about – I really did – the possibility of this being a joke. But all the posts I saw on Weibo at the time citing the quote as from a SARFT official. I should have pointed out that I failed to find a source and it was unverified information. After seeing the quote appearing on some serious news sites, I was like “WTF…”