{"id":104,"date":"2006-12-04T13:08:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-04T19:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=104"},"modified":"2006-12-04T13:08:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-04T19:08:00","slug":"fake-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2006\/12\/fake-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcaps\">T<\/span>he <b>fake news debate<\/b> has been given a new twist in China. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shanghaidaily.com\/art\/2006\/12\/05\/298880\/Shady_operators_fall_prey_to_dirty_reporters.htm\">Shanghai Daily<\/a> is reporting on bogus journos who apparently threaten to expose corruption unless paid to stay silent: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>In less than 100 days, from early August to November 9, an anti-fake-reporter campaign in an otherwise little known city in coal-rich Shanxi Province had uncovered over 80 fake reporters, 44 of them handed over for prosecution, according to a report from the Shanxi Youth Daily on November 27&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Meng Huaihu, former Zhejiang bureau chief for <i>China Commercial Times<\/i>, allegedly extorted 350,000 yuan from Zhejiang Petroleum Co to withhold an investigative report on a motorist&#8217;s complaint about fuel quality.<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> I guess I must have missed the rash of investigations exposing the horrors of the Chinese mining industry etc. etc. Hard to know whether this is a real phenomenon or another campaign targeting journalists, as the writer of the piece notes despondently: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>It&#8217;s commendable for the Luliang government to crack down on fake journalists, but shouldn&#8217;t it also address the very problems these reporters try to profit from?<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fake news debate has been given a new twist in China. The Shanghai Daily is reporting on bogus journos who apparently threaten to expose corruption unless paid to stay silent: In less than 100 days, from early August to November 9, an anti-fake-reporter campaign in an otherwise little known city in coal-rich Shanxi Province [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,50,81,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-journalists","category-media","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}