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Chinese state media blunder hands 2020 Olympics to knocked-out Turkey

Sunday, 08 September, 2013, 5:25pm

Chris Luo and Agence France-Presse Chinese Internet users on Sunday mocked state media for mistakenly reportin Istanbul !ould host the 2020 "lympic #ames, the latest in a series of affes by the o$ernment% backed press& 'inhua (e!s ) ency reported that Istanbul had !on, !hile state tele$ision ran a headline durin a li$e broadcast sayin *+okyo eliminated,& eradicate +okyo !as the e$entual !inner& -oth reports !ere later !ithdra!n, but some of China.s lar est ne!s portals, includin Sina&com&cn and Sohu&com&cn, had already picked up the !ron messa e !hich continued to circulate in Internet postin s& 'inhua apparently mistook a $ote by International "lympic Committee members to decide !hether Istanbul or /adrid !ould ad$ance in the $otin after a first%round tie, !hich the +urkish city !on& *'inhua.s blooper, !hich mistakes +okyo !ith Istanbul, is killin the ne!spapers across the nation,, 0i 1anyin, deputy editor of Changsha Evening News, !rote on Sina 1eibo, a microblo ser$ice !hich is China.s e2ui$alent of +!itter& 3e claimed the ne!spaper had to ur ently retract hundreds of thousands of copies in the early mornin and suffered *se$ere loss,& *)s a ne!s pro$ider, 'inhua o!es its clients an e4planation and a self%reflection,, he added& 0i remo$ed his postin re ardin the issue on Sunday afternoon !ithout i$in a reason& 5ibrant Chinese blo ers also chimed in on the topic&

*Chinese 6ournalism schools often label 'inhua as amon !orld.s top ne!s a encies, ho! it deals !ith this blooper can put it to a real test,, said (e! 7ork%based China analyst -ao -eibei on her blo & Some others related the latest affe from an official ne!s pro$ider to an on oin Chinese o$ernment clamp do!n on online%rumours&

*0iars must be held accountable, other!ise it.s not fair,, said a user !ho a$e the name /c/onkey& In another case, the 8eople.s 9aily ne!spaper last year reported (orth :orean leader :im ;on %<n had been named last year.s *Se4iest /an )li$e,, after treatin a spoof a!ard by satirical <S !ebsite *+he "nion, as enuine& /ore recently, state media mistook spaceship desi ns featured in the <S smash sci%fi sho! -attlestar #alactica for aircraft carrier plans& -ut some of the Internet comments in China, !hose capital -ei6in hosted the 2008 Summer #ames, had an anti%;apanese tone as the t!o countries are locked in a territorial dispute& *It.s an international 6oke to let this country host the "lympics,, said one under the name :id #reen& *3ope they can settle the matter of the 9iaoyu Islands and =comfort !omen., admit the massacre and face history&, -oth -ei6in and +okyo claim islands in the >ast China Sea, called 9iaoyus by China and the Senkakus by ;apan, !hich administers them& 1artime history also remains a sore point bet!een the nei hbours, includin the 1?3@ *(an6in /assacre, and the use of !omen from China and other countries in military brothels durin 1orld 1ar II&

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