Monday, August 13, 2007
Chinese Steamed Buns
You may remember awhile back about a big news story about steamed buns in China being made from cardboard. Fox News among many others ran it. I guess a week or so later, there were more stories, this time about the Chinese reporter who ran the story accused and arrested over the fact that the whole cardboard food story was all a fake. Even Wikipedia has an entry about the fake story.
What I find interesting is that a lot of Chinese don't believe the reporter was arrested for faking the story, but in actuality was arrested because the story was true and the Chinese government was less than thrilled with the publicity as they ramp up for the 2008 Olympics - the Chinese government being the kind and considerate folks that they are. Some of my Chinese friends actually thought I was pretty guillable for buying the idea that the Chinese government arrested the reporter for telling lies rather than arresting him for telling the truth the government really wouldn't like to hear right now.
Labels: food, government
