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The overseas edition of the People's Daily's published Wednesday a front-page commentary by Shen Dingli, a professor at Shanghai's Fudan University, that urged the U.S. government to "take responsibility for the issue and take measures in that direction."

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After the critics weighed in on the AP story, the news agency played down Daily's importance.

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He then played clip after clip of Fox News and Fox Business Network anchors extolling The Daily's game-changing brilliance.

WATCH: Colbert Takes On Murdoch's iPad Paper Jack Mirkinson 2011

The Next Web's Courtney Boyd Meyers outlined the The Daily's likely subscription system in her coverage of today's Jobs news: "'The Daily' is expected to cost .99 per issue and will implement a new 'push' subscription feature from iTunes that automatically bills customers on a weekly or monthly basis, with a new edition delivered to your iPad each morning."

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Colbert also mocked a widely-circulated memo from The Daily's editor, Jesse Angelo, urging his staff to go across the U.S. and look for things like "the oldest dog in America" and "the richest man in South Dakota."

WATCH: Colbert Takes On Murdoch's iPad Paper Jack Mirkinson 2011

He then played clip after clip of Fox News and Fox Business Network anchors extolling The Daily's game-changing brilliance.

WATCH: Colbert Takes On Murdoch's iPad Paper Jack Mirkinson 2011

Colbert also mocked a widely-circulated memo from The Daily's editor, Jesse Angelo, urging his staff to go across the U.S. and look for things like "the oldest dog in America" and "the richest man in South Dakota."

WATCH: Colbert Takes On Murdoch's iPad Paper Jack Mirkinson 2011

Colbert also mocked a widely-circulated memo from The Daily's editor, Jesse Angelo, urging his staff to go across the U.S. and look for things like "the oldest dog in America" and "the richest man in South Dakota."

WATCH: Colbert Takes On Murdoch's iPad Paper Jack Mirkinson 2011

He then played clip after clip of Fox News and Fox Business Network anchors extolling The Daily's game-changing brilliance.

WATCH: Colbert Takes On Murdoch's iPad Paper Jack Mirkinson 2011

Scans Daily's new page limits means they don't cover how he's back but you don't really want to know, anyway, it's amazingly convoluted even for comics.

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