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LOLOLOL The Onion Keeps On Embarrassing Newspapers

The Onion Keeps On Embarrassing Newspapers via TechCrunch by Robin Wauters

on 9/4/09 The Onion, America’s Finest News Source and easily one of the best destinations for quality satire if we ever visited one, strikes yet again. Not only is it wiping the floor with real journalism on Google News Spotlight - a new section dedicated to in-depth journalism work - but it is also lovingly feeding the dinosaurs satirical stories that wind up getting reported as actual news. Two Bangladeshi newspapers, The Daily Manab Zamin and New Nation, have been forced to apologize to the public today after having regurgitated a news article taken from The Onion website which claimed the Moon landings were faked. The fake news article in question said Neil Armstrong had told a news conference he had been “forced to reconsider every single detail of the monumental journey after watching a few persuasive YouTube videos and reading several blog posts” by a conspiracy theorist.

Full Story here (on Tech Crunch)

Wow, it’s really amazing when people fall for this kinda thing! :D