Daily Mail story about sunrises being shown on big screens in Beijing was made up

(not satire – it’s the Daily Mail!)

I’m well aware a blogpost about the Daily Mail making up a story is a bit ‘dog bites man‘ as far as news goes but I couldn’t allow this to pass unnoticed.

A few days ago a Daily Mail article went viral about Beijing residents having to watch fake sunrises on giant TV screens because the pollution there is so bad (warning – link to Daily Mail dross):

China starts televising the sunrise on giant TV screens because Beijing is so clouded in smog

Well no prizes for guessing the article was completely made up.

Here’s the full story from Tech in Asia:

No, Beijing residents are NOT watching fake sunrises on giant TVs because of pollution

Is it really too much to expect our newspapers to contain at least some real news?

An amusing postscript to this is a short Twitter exchange between the Daily Mail’s so-called ‘reporter’ who filed the story James Nye and proper journalist Paul Bischoff who rumbled his lie:

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Want to annoy a Daily Mail reporter? Then why not share this and let them know people are noticing their lies?

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