I've just been looking at a truly sickening example of this money-grabbing attitude on a blog written by Chris O'Brien, a foreign editor at Xinhua, which is the international news agency run by the Chinese government.

Xinhua accidentally used a picture of Homer Simpson's brain on a serious story about health! Chris pointed out the error and politely suggested they fix it.

The original story is funny, but just have a close look at the vicious comments from Gareth W. Dodd, who is supposed to be an experienced journalist and senior editor at Xinhua, but to me he sounds more like the token foreign ass-kisser for his fascist thug paymasters.

Creepy Gareth seems to have invented a fake conversation with Chris, and then threatened to fire him over it. Pb