Plagiarism is one of the favorite working methods of many journalists at the state-owned China Daily and at Xinhua’s English website. But recently the copying methods of these journalists are becoming increasingly sophisticated.<\/p>\n
Take for example, a recent Intertfax story about a website that sets up surrogate mothers with women who can’t have children, titled Chinese surrogate mother website grows amid risks and controversies<\/a>. Some journalist at the China Daily copied the article, chopped it up a bit, removed that scary word “controversies” and republished it on the China Daily’s website as Surrogate mother site grows in popularity<\/a>.<\/p>\n Another example from Interfax: a story called 52% of Chinese office workers write Internet blogs, complaining and privacy top blog themes<\/a>.<\/p>\n The China Daily picked it up, added a sexy photo from Chinese girl blogger Mu Mu<\/a>, attributed it to Interfax, removed the scary word “complaining” from the headline and published it as 52% of office workers write blogs, privacy top theme<\/a>.<\/p>\n After this, Xinhua picked it up directly from the China Daily, republishing with the cleaned up headline here<\/a>, crediting the story only to the China Daily, making it seem that it was just one state-owned media company borrowing from another.<\/p>\n Content laundry: could it be the next growth business on the Chinese Internet?<\/p>\n – Thanks to DC Running Machine for the links.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Plagiarism is one of the favorite working methods of many journalists at the state-owned China Daily and at Xinhua’s English website. But recently the copying methods of these journalists are becoming increasingly sophisticated. Take for example, a recent Intertfax story … Continue reading