Apparently, Taiwan's China Post feels the same way about lying as well:
Frank comments by Central Bank Governor Perng Fai-nan (彭淮南) that Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou's proposal of a referendum on the latest 130-billion-euro bailout plan could be like “a bomb dropped on the global financial market” made news around the globe as the world weighs in on the latest eurozone crisis. [Emphasis added]
Now, I've never been to journalism school. But I am pretty sure one thing they don't teach is to just casually make shit up. (In the VERY FIRST SENTENCE of your editorial, no less.)
Perng Fai-nan's comments made news around the globe? Pray tell, in which alternate universe did his pronouncements raise such a stir?
Because in the one I currently inhabit, there's nothing about this in the New York Times.
Nothing in the Washington Post.
Nor in London's Daily Telegraph. Nor the Daily Mail.
Googling Perng Fai-nan Canada brings up a big goose egg. As does Perng Fai-nan Australia. Same for New Zealand as well.
While by no means the biggest lie the Post has ever perpetrated, it is amusing nonetheless. That a paper should have the face to start a piece explicitly pandering to the "China is the center of the world" prejudices of its ultra-nationalist readership . . . and then complain about POLITICIANS who engage in "populism".
Update: The Post again:
"Of course, if the referendum is indeed held, the Greek public may possibly pay little attention to the opinion of a Taiwan central bank chief." [Emphasis added]
Whoa. You called THAT one, dudes.
Update #2: Wanna know exactly how much of a non-event Perng's statements were on the world stage?
I'm as surprised as anyone to see the top search engine result for "Perng Fai-nan New York Times".
ROTFLMAO.
RE: ”Now, I’ve never been to journalism school. But I am pretty sure one thing they don’t teach is to just casually make shit up. (In the VERY FIRST SENTENCE of your editorial, no less.)”
ED NOTE from OLD SCHOOL EDITOR in MARYLAND, tells me: ”In the journalism school that the editors who run the CP went to, they did teach that. So they practice it often. It’s a cardinal rule of the CP editorials.”
and RE: ”While by no means the biggest lie the Post has ever perpetrated, it is amusing nonetheless. That a paper should have the **face*** to start a piece explicitly pandering to the “China is the center of the world” prejudices of its ultra-nationalist readership . . . and then complain about POLITICIANS who engage in “populism”.
ED NOTE also from dude in Maryland who tells me: ”CP has no face. It is not a real newspaper. It is a PR tool for those who own it and run it. Do not take one word that appears in that propaganda rag seriously. It has not face at all. Blank face is all. Pay it no mind.”
However, I rather like the China Post and read it every day. The layout is nice on the eyes, the features are good, and the editorials are food for thought.
And this post comment is not from Danlloom but from an obvious internet doppelganger masquerading as somone else. But waste no future ink on CP critiques, everyone in Taiawn knows it for what it is and nobody takes it seriously anymore ever since Paul Chen left for retirement. HE knew how to run a paper. His inheritors do not.