Why China’s People’s Daily Found Kim Jong-Un So Sexy
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Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- It may turn out that the editors ofthe English language edition of the Chinese Communist Party’smouthpiece, People’s Daily, were only kidding when they ran a55-image slideshow based on “Kim Jong-Un Named The Onion’sSexiest Man Alive for 2012.”
But if it turns out that they weren’t, the explanation forhow such an article ended up in China’s most important tribunalisn’t so hard to parse. In three distinct ways, the Onion’ssatire was perfectly engineered to appeal to editorial biases --some might call them blind spots -- at the English edition ofPeople’s Daily.