As China gets ready to host the world at the Olympics in 2008 they sure don't need this:
A fake news story about sales of steamed dumplings stuffed with meat-flavoured chopped up cardboard has led to China’s top official in charge of propaganda being forced to make a rare apology.
The spoof story has also had huge ramifications for the media industry that is already tightly controlled by the state - Beijing police have detained the television reporter said to be responsible and his colleagues are having to write 2,000 word self-criticisms to show they will not make the same error.
