Was it just yesterday that I wrote about cut and paste journalism in China? Then today, China proves once again that when it comes to making mistakes, they still do things bigger and better than everyone else.
From The Guardian’s This week we want to know all about … The Homer Simpson X-ray:
Xinhua, the state news agency, published a health report on its English-language website, China View, under the headline: ‘Two new genes found for multiple sclerosis.’ It was illustrated by an X-ray scan of a human head, presumably from the agency’s picture library. Unfortunately, it was a cartoon X-ray image of Homer Simpson, he of the domed head and doughnut-sized mouth - and walnut-sized brain.
Doh!
This cock-up is nearly as big as the time that Beijing Evening News plagiarized a satirical article from The Onion and passed it off as real news, not knowing the difference. I wrote about that in Beijing buns a fabricated story?
You wouldn’t expect the official state news agency to have a sense of humor, but it’s not asking too much for them to set an example when it comes to copyright infringement and intellectual property.
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