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The Onion Fools Foreign Reporters Once Again
from the pealing-away-at-the-fact-checking-myth dept
The Onion strikes again! Seven years ago, we wrote about how a Beijing news program believed a story in The Onion concerning threats by Congress to move to a new Capitol building (with a retractable dome). The latest is that two Bangladeshi newspapers apparently reprinted the "news" from The Onion claiming that astronaut Neil Armstrong was convinced that the moon landings were faked after reading some conspiracy theory sites online. You can almost forgive foreign reporters for not knowing that The Onion is satire, but it just reinforces how little fact checking the supposedly "professional" press does anywhere around the world.
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Really?
Want to head down to the Special Olympics and decry their athletic skills next?
Actually, that could be kind of....naaaaahhhhh.
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You call that lack-of-fact-checking
A few days ago an Argentinian news program reported that some teens are getting drunk with a drink called "Grog XD" (yeah, with the ex-di).
The only source that they used was Facebook, and according to it, the drink "Grog XD" containing "kerosene, propylene glycol, artificial sweeteners, sulphuric acid, rum, acetone, red dye no. 2, scumm, axle grease, battery acid, and/or pepperoni."
If still you don't get it, it is a fake recipe from the game Monkey's Island from like 20 years ago.
Here is the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iYZy2xyR-g
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i read the onion article last week. So funny that the Bangladeshi's picked up on it...
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Please, please, please go with a Clinton/Obama wife swap faker...
Or how about an account by the pilot of that plane from S. Korea saying that Clinton nailed those two Chinese journalists. Makes those pictures of him welcoming them to the plane all the more creepy...
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Tabloid
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Arrogance
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....yeah, no. Lifelong student of world history with time spent in the region, mostly India. Though you missed the point I was making, which was that Bangladeshi papers have little to no frame of reference for relatively small, Chicago-based satirical periodicals that are only funny because of how plausible some of the stories appear on the surface.
But yeah, I'M the moron...
Oh, and I know that every Ethiopian isn't starving. After all, Marvin plumped up in South Park, didn't he?
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Hell they probably think FOX News is a reputable source as well.
Or for that matter CNN or MSNBC! What a bunch of fools.
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well, every thing has its price
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Google News
I wanted to send Google a protest note asking that Onion be excluded from Google "News" but nowhere could I find a link for email feedback.
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Other then that...I agree with you. :)
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ROFLMAO
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