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The Onion Is Really Rubbing It In: “Exemplary Reportage, Comrades”
Remember when Chinese propaganda rag People’s Daily confused an Onion spoof for real news, proudly touting that Kim Jong-Un was the Sexiest Man Alive? Of course you do, it happened yesterday, and...
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People’s Daily Admits It Fell For The Onion Spoof, Editor Hopes It “Wouldn’t...
The Associated Press succeeded in getting People’s Daily on the line to answer for its slideshow, “North Korea’s top leader named The Onion’s Sexiest Man Alive for 2012.” An online editor said the...
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Let Us Recall That Chinese Satire Has Fooled Western Media Outlets (And James...
Earlier this year, I gave a lecture to high school journalism students in China about the importance of citation, spending a good 10 minutes on the how and why of it. This may or may not surprise you,...
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Meet Sina Weibo Star Choi Seongho, A Self-Proclaimed North Korean Patriot Who...
By Xiao Yi “At my residence in Beijing, with Coke toast first to the supreme leaders!” And with that first message on June 29, Sina Weibo user @作家崔成浩 – literally, “Writer Choi Seongho” – launched...
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Another Case Of Satire Lost In Translation… Or Is It? Netizens Slam The...
George Ding, the Beijinger’s backpage columnist, has provided us the latest example of why humor articles should never be translated. His recent column, “Why I’m Coming Back To China,” is an attempt...
View ArticleJon Stewart And Neil deGrasse Tyson Talk About China’s Pollution, Space Laser
Jon Stewart gave China’s air the comedic treatment last week (and rhymed it with “Nair”), using footage from a week before (and referencing this story about the Hangzhou factory fire). We bring it up...
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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...
View ArticleVery Funny Dubbing Of North Korean Propaganda Video Insists Americans Love...
Do you drink coffee made out of snow? Live in tents and feed on birds? Own a gun? Do heroin? You must be an American. “This is how they live in modern-day America,” says the English-language dubber in...
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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.,...
View ArticleThe Daily Show Does China Segment After Jon Stewart Realizes 3 Million...
If you’re looking for analysis on why China loved Jon Stewart’s digs at Kim Jong-un (above), head over to the Washington Post, where Max Fisher writes: When the popular Chinese Web portal Sina posted...
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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...
View ArticleChinese Media Uses Daily Show Clip To Jab Obama On Guantanamo
As Barack Obama’s failure to close the Guantanamo Bay detention camp continues to anger his liberal base, interested observers outside the US are beginning to take their potshots at the reeling POTUS....
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A Satirist Is On The Loose In Global Times Again
Amulet Mok, you cheeky bastard. If that is your real name! You ever have that very moment when every single cell of your body was aroused and your body was open for anything? Oh dear. And all of a...
View ArticleUnsurprisingly, “What Kind Of Asian Are You?” Skit Brought Out Some Racists
Ken Tanaka, one of the directors of the funny skit “What Kind of Asian Are You?,” which we featured here last week, has sent us a follow-up that features actors Stella Choe and Scott Beehner reading...
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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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People’s Daily: “Giant Squid Washes Ashore In California.” Er, No
First, we need to collectively realize — then get over the fact that — People’s Daily has a Facebook page. Then we can get to this story, first tweeted by Bill Bishop with the question, “People’s...
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Stephen Colbert Addresses Dumb #CancelColbert Movement
An episode of The Colbert Report last Wednesday used the words “ching-chong ding-dong” in an attempt to satirize / skewer Washington dunderhead Dan Synder. When the show’s Twitter account tweeted the...
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People’s Daily Seeks “Immediate Rectification” From Parody Account...
People’s Daily, the gift that keeps on giving, did a most glorious thing at 1:39 am today by “publicly condemn[ing]” a parody Twitter account, The Relevant Organs. “We have noticed that a Twitter...
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