Top Ten Fake News in 2007

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The murderer of the American campus shooting was initially identified as an international student from China.

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Published on April 6, 2007/kloc-0.

By Deng Yue Liu Xiaoqing.

"News" Today, the identity of the suspect in the extraordinarily serious shooting at Virginia Tech University was initially confirmed: the murderer was a 24-year-old China student who came to the United States with a student visa. But the police said he was not a student at Virginia Tech. According to the source "Chicago Sun", he left Shanghai on a United Airlines flight on August 7 last year, landed in San Francisco, California, and entered the country with a student visa.

Truth At about 9: 40 pm on April 17, Beijing time, a press conference about the case was broadcast live by CNN. At the meeting, the police announced that after careful investigation by the relevant departments, the identity of the murderer came out-23-year-old Korean student Zhao, a fourth-year English major at Virginia Tech.

Comments on this fake news that damaged the image of Chinese people and made Chinese people indignant, the netizen "Zi Mei Lao Ren" posted in Xici that night, pointing out that there were several shortcomings in the news released by Zhongxin.com that "the murderer of the shooting incident was a 24-year-old China": "First, the manuscript was not an interview of its own, but the whole translation was signed by a reporter from Zhongxin.com; Second, the source was not carefully verified and the source of the source was not explained; Third, there are mistakes in translation. It is said that in the report of the shooting on campus in the United States, there are new reports in China. Com is not only fast but also abundant, which makes other media sigh. Here, a BBC news standard is specially selected to encourage each other: "Accuracy is more important than speed. "

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The former vice mayor of xinzheng city sold barbecues after he was released from prison.

Publish and broadcast the magazine "Integrity Outlook"

Published in April 2007

Author Wang Fakun

"News" has a "Li Ji Barbecue Shop" at the intersection of Zhengzhou Municipal Bureau of Political Science and Law and Tourism Bureau, and its business is particularly hot. It is often seen that chefs with towels on their shoulders skillfully flip mutton kebabs. He is the owner of this barbecue shop. But who would have thought that this barbecuer was once the vice mayor of xinzheng city! Li was born in a peasant family in xinzheng city, Henan Province. After graduating from high school, he was admitted to Henan Agricultural University with a master's degree, and stayed there as an associate professor two years later. In 2000, Li went to his hometown of xinzheng city as the deputy mayor and was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for dereliction of duty. After he was released from prison, he studied under the teacher and became an out-and-out mutton roaster.

Truth On April 28th, the Information Office of xinzheng city People's Government solemnly stated in the article "Li, former deputy mayor of xinzheng city, Henan Province, sells barbecue after he is released from prison": "Recently, some websites have commented on Sichuan's" clean government "without investigation and verification. Reprinted the article "Li, former vice mayor of xinzheng city, Henan Province, sells barbecue after he is released from prison" published by Wang magazine. In this regard, xinzheng city solemnly declares: 1. The article "Li, former deputy mayor of xinzheng city, Henan Province, sells barbecue after he is released from prison" is purely fabricated by the author and has no factual basis; There is no deputy mayor Li in xinzheng city. ...

In fact, the magazine "Integrity View" is very unfair. They are not the initiators. As early as 2005, this article was published by Part-time Job and Modern Women's Daily, but it had little impact at that time. It should be noted that since all reprints are from "integrity? Look at the magazines, and the bad influence is also produced. Therefore, although this untrue report of "starting right" belongs to the media such as "Part-time Job", you still hit the board in "Integrity Outlook" magazine. Who made you influential? What's more, it's really strange to "fry" the "cold rice" and "dirty rice" two years ago.

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Armed police practice boat operation skills hard

Anhui Daily, a broadcast media, was published.

Published on May 25, 2007

Author He, Chunjiu,

"News" The newspaper published a news picture on the front page with the caption: "Recently, officers and men of the Anhui Armed Police Corps broke the waves in Zipengshan Reservoir and practiced their boat operation skills. As the rainy season approaches, the flood control situation is grim. The corps takes precautions and actively prepares for flood control, and conducts training around assault boats, rubber boat assembly operations, water formation, water obstacle crossing and water rescue. Improve the ability of officers and men to rescue and rescue on water. The picture shows the longitudinal formation training of the ship formation. "

Truth If you look at the picture carefully, you will find that the water waves caused by the third and fourth ships and the top of the picture are not bad at all. Obviously, this is a copy-and-paste photo.

Perhaps the counterfeiter is not satisfied with the comment, just to copy a ship to enhance the picture effect. Why not turn it into a fake photo? But please see: Xinhua News Agency's China Photo Gallery, People's Photo Gallery, China News Photo Gallery, Wuzhou Communication Photo Gallery and Oriental IC Photo Agency jointly issued the "Joint Announcement of Five Photo Websites to Resist False Pictures", which clearly stipulates: "Photographers are not allowed to make any changes to the data of the original digital image files. It is never allowed to add images or delete local images on photos at will, or even change the contents of the pictures (except for the irrelevant parts in the cropped pictures). " This is also the professional ethics recognized by the international news photography community.

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The soldier's mother recognized the soldier's son.

Essay Monthly, a publishing and broadcasting media

Published in June 2007

Author Zhang Mingyue

In 2000, I wrote a story about a soldier's mother, Joe ... during the flood fighting (1998), she bought a raincoat for a frontline soldier with the tuition fee of 2000 yuan borrowed for her daughter to go to college. Six years later, I returned to Luoyang. The soldier's mother's name was Lei ... She recognized the sons of 65,438+076 soldiers and helped more than 700 victims and sick soldiers ... I went to her house, but she was not at home. Her retired husband Zhang Jianmin was cooking with a briquette stove ... The old man opened a locked wooden box for me, which contained train tickets and bus tickets from all over the country. The old man told me that the total amount of these credentials is 438656 yuan. In other words, a couple whose monthly income never exceeds 1000 yuan have paid more than 400,000 yuan in love in 25 years. I was really touched. ...

Written by a professional writer, A Touch of True Feelings was published in Essays Monthly and reprinted in Readers, which caused many misunderstandings among Joe and his family, a patriotic model in the new era. The fact is:

-She has helped some people in trouble and sick soldiers, but the number of people she has helped has not reached more than "700" and she has never helped "victims". -The so-called "a couple whose monthly income never exceeds 1000 yuan, and their love in 25 years exceeds 400,000 yuan" is completely nonsense! She and her lover are both working-class people. Even if they don't eat or drink at ordinary times, it's hard to save more than 400 thousand to do good deeds!

Commenting on this "explosive" is a trap, which fills the gap of "positive reporting of fake news". In all fairness, Zhang Mingyue, a professional writer, is repugnant for cheating, but the key to the problem is that some editors pursue a high, large and comprehensive reporting mode: telling the truth is not moved, but telling lies is carried away.

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Retired champions make a living by setting up stalls.

Publishing and broadcasting the media Family Guide

Published on June 5, 2007/kloc-0

Author Wang Zhijun

"News" Tang Ying was 24 years old in 2007. During her 12 sports career, she trained every day. Tang Ying's sports performance is also improving. First the National Youth Championship, then the National Games, and then the Asian Championship. In the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, Tang Ying participated in the domestic trials, but unfortunately, his performance was not satisfactory and he was not selected. On June 5438+ 10, 2006, Tang Ying and his teammates all retired, and each received a retirement pension of 30,000-50,000 yuan. In order to survive after retirement, I have to set up a stall; A man wants to spend 6.5438+10,000 yuan a year to support her, but she resolutely refuses (respecting the wishes of the parties, all the characters in the text use pseudonyms).

The truth has been proved. The hero of the article is not the champion of the Asian Championship, the National Games and the National Youth Championship, but only the runner-up of the National Youth Championship and the champion of related projects in Hunan Province. After the incident, the Propaganda Department of Hunan Provincial Party Committee attached great importance to it and immediately asked Hunan Daily Newspaper Group to hold a meeting of heads of relevant units and departments for reflection, and quickly conducted self-examination and self-correction. Family Herald publicly apologized to readers.

The comments here reveal a subconscious problem of journalists, that is, one-sided pursuit of news "prominence" and "sensational effect" Imagine if the protagonist is just a champion of the school sports meeting, even if he lives on the streets begging for a living, which reporter is willing to interview? Who else will sign? Therefore, habit becomes nature. Journalists write articles, edit articles, and bosses publish articles, often intentionally or unintentionally highlighting their "prominence" and "sensation". As a result, ordinary artists were upgraded to famous artists, small bosses became famous entrepreneurs, teaching assistants became experts ... and so on, the runner-up had to be changed to champions.

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Carton steamed bun

Broadcast media Beijing TV station

Published on July 8, 2007

Author Qian Beijia

"News" The "Transparency" column of Beijing TV Station broadcasted a program with the title of "Paper Steamed Buns". In the program, a reporter made an unannounced visit to an unlicensed processing shop in Chaoyang District and sold steamed buns with waste paper boxes.

Truth At the beginning of June, 2007, Zhai Beijia put forward at the topic selection meeting of the column group Transparency that she had received a phone call from the masses to reflect the problem that "the steamed stuffed bun was mixed with shredded paper", which aroused the interest of the column producers and was determined as a special report. One day at the end of June, Zhai Beijia took secret shooting equipment and invited his friend and unemployed Zhang to pretend to be the owner of the construction site. After buying meat stuffing, flour and other things at Kangjiagou Market in Chaoyang District, Wei Quanfeng and other four people were asked to make steamed buns. During the filming, Zhai Beijia asked Wei Quanfeng and others to soak the picked cartons in water and chop them into meat stuffing to make buns for dogs. Because the effect was not good, they randomly found a migrant worker and instructed him to make up a lie about the ratio of meat to paper, and made up lines with caustic soda to increase the visual and auditory effects. 12 In August, Jin Beijia, a temporary worker of Beijing TV Station who made the news of "Carton Steamed Buns", was sentenced to 1 year imprisonment and fined 1000 yuan by Beijing No.2 Intermediate People's Court.

Although the comments have come to the bottom, a sentence used by Beijing TV in the Beijing News on the evening of July 18 is quite interesting, that is, the counterfeiter Jin Beijia is a "temporary person". The implication is that this person is not a formal employee of Beijing TV Station, so it has nothing to do with Beijing TV Station. What is the logic of this excuse?

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The most vicious stepmother in history abused children.

Publishing media Jtv.

Published on July 5, 2007/kloc-0.

The writer is a reporter for Metropolitan Channel.

On July 15, the special program "Why did you do this to her" was broadcast in jtv's "Urban Love" column. It is reported that a six-year-old girl, Lilac Xiaohui, was lying in a hospital bed, vomiting blood crazily, covered in blood and bruises.

In the film, the reporter interviewed doctors and street cadres and came to the conclusion: "The injury on the child must be his injury!" At the end of the film, there is a scene where the child says into the reporter's microphone that the injury on his body was hit by his stepmother.

July 17, titled "The most inhuman thing I have ever seen! Stepmother beat her 6-year-old stepdaughter, and thousands of people cried at the treatment site! ! ! Articles are disseminated on major websites and forums. With more media attention and reports, "the most vicious stepmother child abuse incident in history" was widely spread.

Truth On July 24, the Public Security Bureau of Poyang County, Jiangxi Province informed the society of the authoritative investigation report on the abuse of clove Xiaohui: the facts have been ascertained: First, Chen did not abuse clove Xiaohui; Second, the initial injury of Xiao Hui's body surface was caused by her own fall.

In fact, the real shady story of the "stepmother child abuse incident" has not been uncovered at all, and its strangeness dwarfs any Hollywood suspense movie-who is the manipulator behind the whole incident? Who was the mysterious poster who first spread "vicious stepmother" on the Internet? Why are the shots of jtv special programs never broadcast on the Internet, and the screenshots are extremely clear? Why did Xiaohui lie? ...

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Each of the 3000 students of the Chinese University of Science and Technology received a condom.

Print and broadcast media "Chutian Gold News"

Published on September 7, 2007/kloc-0.

Author Zhao Duo Xiong Xiaoyan

News: "I am a citizen of People's Republic of China (PRC) (PRC). When I was 18 years old, I solemnly swore in front of the national flag: from now on, I know how to take responsibility ..." Yesterday, nearly 3,000 boys from the School of Mechanical Science and Engineering of Huazhong University of Science and Technology held an adult ceremony on campus. After the ceremony, a company participating in the hosting activities distributed an Adult Handbook and a condom to each student representative who took part in the swearing-in activities.

Truth "Chu Tian Jin Bao" September 19 Correction: 17 In September, 3000 students of the Chinese University of Science and Technology swore an "adult" article incorrectly. The article "distributed an adult handbook and condoms to each student representative who took part in the swearing-in activity" should be interpreted as "after the subsequent' inspirational report meeting', a co-organizer of an enterprise who participated in the activity distributed condoms to a very small number of students privately, and the school immediately stopped and took them back"; The "nearly 3,000 boys" in the article should be "about 980 boys and girls". I apologize to Huazhong University of Science and Technology for the inconvenience.

There are three serious inaccuracies in commenting on the news with a short span of 500 words: first, the new classmates and old classmates present do not add up to 1000, but claim to be 3000; Second, there are obviously girls present, but with a stroke of a pen, all the girls "disappear"; The third way is to distribute condoms to a very small number of students privately, but they become one person.

The reporter who reported the news is said to have arrived at the scene, but I don't know how he interviewed. The value of news is profaned in impetuousness.

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China Academy of Social Sciences announced the wage standard of white-collar workers in major cities of China.

Print and broadcast the media "peninsula metropolis daily"

Release date: 165438+200710.3.

The author is anonymous.

According to the Beijing Morning Post, China Academy of Social Sciences recently announced the salary standards for white-collar workers in major cities in China in 2007, including price level, living cost, transportation cost, urban modernization and many other factors. Unit: RMB. Migrant workers are added on the basis of 1800 yuan. It is divided into seven files. First gear: Hong Kong 18500, Macau 8900; Second gear: Shanghai 5350, Shenzhen 5280, Wenzhou 5020, Beijing 5000; Third gear: Hangzhou 4980, Guangzhou 4750, Suzhou 4300, Xiamen 4 100, Qingdao 4000. ...

Truth165438+1on October 7th, the website of China Academy of Social Sciences issued an official statement, "The relevant research institutes and research groups of our institute have never published the so-called' white-collar wage standards in major cities in China in 2007', nor have they carried out relevant research work." Later, a reporter revealed after investigation that the "previous life" of this fake news was actually posting on the forum of netizens.

In today's era, news dissemination can not be separated from the help of the Internet, but it can not rely entirely on the Internet. In recent years, the emergence of many fake news is inseparable from the network.

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Senior officials of the Emperor confirmed the death of Kung Fu superstar Sammo Hung.

Publishing and broadcasting the media Modern Express

Published on February 9, 2007 +65438.

Author Sun Yi

Sammo Hung, a kung fu superstar of "News" generation, died suddenly last night. After the reporter learned the bad news from his colleagues in Hong Kong, he contacted an emperor in Hong Kong urgently, and the other party confirmed the news. As of press time, the cause of Sammo Hung's death is still unknown, except that he did not die in Hongkong. It is reported that1October 30th, 165438+ Sammo Hung was still in good health when he participated in activities in Guangzhou.

Truth: After Modern Express published Sammo Hung's "Deadpool", Netease Entertainment has been keeping in touch with the martial artists of this year's Chengjia Class and Hongjia Class. That afternoon 15, Sammo Hung's good friend Zheng Zhihao finally got through to Sammo Hung. Sammo Hung said that he was in Shandong, and thanked all those who cared about him. He also said that he was drinking Pu 'er tea at leisure and nothing happened. The reporter asked the reporter who reported the news. She replied to the reporter's short message with the words "I was fooled". If you ask her again, she won't say much.

It is no longer news to comment that journalists "kill people" with pens. But this time, instead of reflecting on the entertainment record of "killing people", the news eye came forward to apologize, but angrily spit out the words "I was fooled", as if it were more unjust than Dou E, and now even counterfeiters dare to complain. So, isn't Sammo Hung and the readers more wronged?

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