Napoleans once said "Nothing is impossible" and so is this.

Eli Lilly is a big drug company that puts profits over patients.

Daniel Haszard Bangor Maine zyprexa caused my diabetes http://www.zyprexa-victims.com

that is the quality of HK newspapers, utterly uncritical, taking propaganda as serious news iten.

Pfizer roll out the same cooked up figures every year in an effort to sell more Via@gra. Please don't encourage them. They even invented the term erectile dysfunction. Sounds more clinical than impotence.

As an employee of the HK newspaper that published that sad item, I'd say that Sun Bin is correct. The reporter and assigning editor on that story honestly had no clue as to Pfizer's motive or connection regarding that poll.
The real fault lies on the back bench, where they are too jaded, overworked and tired to even care.

It would only be a viable Barclay Crawford item if it involved working girls selling it to patrons of Fenwicks, his primary source of news.

Which I think is probably a good idea from a market perspective because all that coke can be erectilically disfunctioning so you probably need v**** to get it working properly again.

(Can I just point out that I put the stars in the v word because I got this:

Your comment submission failed for the following reasons:

Your comment could not be submitted due to questionable content: v****

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Or in other words - don't write stories we cannot comment about :)

"The real fault lies on the back bench, where they are too jaded, overworked and tired to even care."

yes, that is the root of the problem in HK newspapers. there is simply no business scale for HK newspaper to afford good staff.

1) the readership in english newspaper is perhaps comparable to that of a medium size county in US. so the scale is 100th of that of LA Times, or NY Times.
2) the chinese newspaper, OTOH, with a market size probably closer to critical mass, is way too fragmented.

It's not just a matter of a model business scale and economics. It's also, at least at The Standard currently, the fact that the paper is entirely under the direction of generally unsophisticated people whose native language is not English and whose news judgement and values seem entirely based on Chinese language newspapers in Hong Kong.
I can't even count the number "important stories" (direct quote) assigned in recent weeks based on press releases hyping non-events, or at the very least events that would be confined to a Metro briefs column if The Standard still had such a feature and was being run by folks with a minimum of western journalism news judgement and who understand the difference between hype, spurious claims and real news.
Then there's the Sing Tao Daily factor. More and more The Standard's business and metro desks are taking their leads from the "sister paper" rather than independent news judgement.
A grotesque case in point: Recently it printed the same tasteless pic of the dying/dead teenage girl who'd overdosed on ketamine. One on the front page and a larger one on the metro lead. The pic came from Sing Tao and also used liberally there. It never would have run under the old regime and for good reason.
I predict The Standard will be running those phony crime and tragedy re-enactment illustrations so popular in the Chinese press before the year is out.
It has become a Chinese newspaper with English characteristics.

Interesting!

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