Wired News: Onion Taken Seriously, Film at 11
There was a problem with the story. Rather than do his own original reporting, Evening News writer Huang Ke had cribbed, nearly word for word, his text from an American publication. And as if that wasn't bad enough, Ke hadn't bothered to vet the source he had plagiarized: The Onion.
Oh my gosh. That is a reporter's worst nightmare. I am so afraid to cite things from the internet as it is--
He got what he deserved.