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Nurse fired after photo blog mocking newborns goes viral

6/10/2012

With viral blogs leading to book contracts and even TV shows, who among us hasn't hoped our wacky Tumblr would go viral? However, one children's hospital intern from China threw decency, and her day job, out the window when she started a blog with mocking pictures of newborns in her care, which she held at weird angles in their sleep. She even put a paper pig snout and ears on one baby as a joke. Babies who have been in this world just a few days and they're ALREADY being bullied online! The blog did go viral -- in the most negative way possible, as it caused a national uproar in China -- and the nurse has been dismissed from her internship despite a public apology.

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Are these pictures light-hearted fun or over the line?