`` The entire journalist industry could learn a lesson from me , '' Chen says . The announcement came two days after the New Express pleaded on its front page , `` Please set him free . '' But his newspaper says it checked his stories and found only one discrepancy . Chen's story was about the Chinese government buying up U.S. Treasury bonds to finance its stimulus program in 2009. His colleagues say he could n't afford to go to take his wife to Pizza Hut .
`` The entire journalist industry could learn a lesson from me , '' Chen says . But his newspaper says it checked his stories and found only one discrepancy . Chen's story was about the Chinese government buying up U.S. Treasury bonds to finance its stimulus program in 2009. His colleagues say he could n't afford to go to take his wife to Pizza Hut .