Xiaoxiang Morning Post editor lets his six-year-old choose what to report…
Written By: 孙智谦 on July 11, 2007
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 A face not even a mother could love… |
| Okay, so that’s not really what’s going on, but the story that prompted this post is lame. I found it on China Daily’s website in the “Odd News” section, and it was taken from the newspaper mentioned in the post title. Here’s the story in its entirety: |
| A pet dog is so distressed at losing all his fur that he has become rebellious.Its owner Liu Lin in Changsha, capital of Hunan Province, thought it was a good idea to have the dog shaved of all his fur to make him comfortable in the hot summer days, but Si Si is not pleased.He has been making this known to Liu by hiding under the sofas, beds and tables and by eating very little. He is now under a vet’s care. |
| How exactly is this news-worthy?! And how is it odd? This is exactly the kind of story your six-year-old neighbor would come up to you and tell you while you’re in your garage working hard on something that takes a lot of concentration not to mess up, expecting you to be totally enthralled. Of course, with a child you pretend to be absolutely taken by the story and even ask her questions about it so as not to break her little spirit, which causes you to totally mess up whatever you’re doing so that you have to start over again. But we’re adults here (or at least, I’m assuming China Daily editors are adults, but I’m starting to wonder after this article was posted), so I can be honest. This is neither news-worthy nor interesting. It also kind of reminds me of the guy you know who comes up and says, “Hey, guess what?!” and then proceeds to tell you the most irrelevant story of your entire life with a gleeful expression typically reserved for a lion who’s about to pounce on two mating wildebeests. You keep waiting for him to throw in an explosion or bank robbery or something else that would make the story cool, but it never comes. You just make up some excuse to go back in your house and close the garage door. |
| Nice “journalism”, China Daily. I don’t know what’s worse, the fact that China Daily considers this news, or the fact that they’re the second news outlet to consider this news. |
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