Apple Daily

Mondo Times editors    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 11:58am on Monday, December 7th, 2009

Hong Kong Newspaper Makes Fake Animated News Reports

On December 6, 2009, the New York Times reported that Apple Daily in Hong Kong is creating "simulated news events." The newspaper started making the animations in November:

"Welcome to the new world of Maybe Journalism — a best guess at the news as it might well have been, rendered as a video game and built on a bed of pure surmise.

A computer-generated “news report” of the Tiger Woods S.U.V. crash — complete with a robotic-looking simulation of Mr. Woods’s wife chasing him with a golf club — has become a top global online video of the moment, perhaps offering a glimpse at the future of journalism, tabloid division. (No matter that the police said she was using the club to release Mr. Woods from the car.)

The minute-and-a-half-long digitally animated piece was created by Next Media, a Hong Kong-based company with gossipy newspapers in Hong Kong and Taiwan. The video is one of more than 20 the company releases a day, often depicting events that no journalist actually witnessed — and that may not have even occurred."

The full story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/06/business/media/06animate.html

Kenneth    Phoenix, AZ

Posted at 11:25am on Friday, August 24th, 2007

The liberal-conservative scale doesn't really work with Hong Kong media. In Hong Kong, Apple Daily is considered as a Pro-Democracy, populist newspaper, with some other newspaper such as Ta Kung Pao leaning towards the Communists. As such, this paper is better described as a "right-leaning" newspaper.