The center said, by quoting Chinese officials, that the people, location, time and the story in that report were all fabricated. In addition, many news agencies in China called them for verification and got the same answer. John Li, a Falun Gong practitioner in Caltech, said that in China, a lot of fabricated news about Falun Gong is fabricated. So it loses its journalistic function as a public monitor. Therefore, they are full of corruption, paid news, and fabricated news.
Different news is published in party newspapers and small newspapers.
Small newspapers accept free submissions. Because of the shortage of manpower, they have no way, nor do they want, to verify the authenticity of news. Meanwhile, in order to gain market and expand their circulations, small newspapers resort to all possible means to please the public with claptrap. Their first priority is to attract more readers, with no respect for facts and authenticity of news. Otherwise, they would be punished by the government.