In continuing fallout from the travails of the Olympic torch, CNN now appears to be entering the Chinese vocabulary in a less than complimentary manner.

A university teacher here in Hong Kong reports that his Chinese students now use the expression “so CNN” to mean something that is subjective, lying and deceitful. One student admonished another “don’t be so CNN”.

(Image from the Anti-CNN website.)

UPDATE: Further evidence of the trend from a new fad in anti-CNN t-shirts reported by Danwei.