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Beijing Paper Takes TheOnion.com Spoof Seriously."from
the Evaluate-Before-You- Disseminate dept. -By Hermit
;-) -Posted
1st @ LISNews.com
Reuter's reports the editor of the Beijing Evening News as explaining, "the story was written by one of our freelance writers" [HI BLAKE, thinks the freelance Hermit, ;-], "his stuff has been pretty much reliable before." The extra punch line is that after the editor heard from Reuters and was "told the story came from the Onion and was not true, the editor said, "We would first have to check that out. If it's indeed fake, I'm sure there will be some form of correction."" humor :-) [PermaURL + Links & Citation] Comment? ------------------------------------------------------ Hermit's ;-) Posts: 20020601    OR-"Eugene,
Oregon's New Library: a "126,000-square-foot Christmas present.""
from the Old-Home-Town dept. -By Hermit!-)
-Posted
1st @ LISNews.com
 IA-
"DMRegister.com
reports: "25% of [Iowa] school seniors read poorly.""
from the Woe-Begone-norm dept. -By Hermit!-|
-Posted
@ LISNews.com
    From HavenWorks - Hermit ;-) |
20020613
- "Beijing
Newspaper Retreats, Apologizes for Capitol Gaffe:
After originally refusing, it retracts its report that U.S. Congress threatened
to leave its digs unless a modern replacement was built." The Beijing
Evening News explained that after ""our reporter in Washington checked
out [the story], he discovered that some of its contents were identical
to the Onion's joke article."" ... "Besides acknowledging its own lapse
in judgment, however, the paper also criticized the Onion, apparently still
not fully aware of the publication's mission as a purveyor of satire and
laughs." ... ""Some small American newspapers frequently fabricate offbeat
news to trick people into noticing them, with the aim of making money,"
the paper said. "This is what the Onion does."" -By
Henry Chu-LAtimes
- "China
Paper Runs U.S. Satire as News." ... "The article
was a deadpan spoof of the way sports teams threaten to leave cities in
order to get new stadiums. The report in the Evening News, which didn't
credit The Onion, included a graphic from the [TheOnion.com] Web site showing
a proposed new U.S. Capitol equipped with a retractable dome."
-By Joe McDonald -AP
via -WashingtonPost
- "Satire
in US becomes news in China." ... "Yu Bin, the editor
in charge of international news, acknowledged yesterday that he had no
idea where the writer, Huang Ke, originally got the story. Yu said he would
tell Huang to ''be more careful next time.''" ... "But he adamantly ruled
out a correction and grew slightly obstreperous when pressed to comment
on the article's lack of truth." ... "''How do you know whether or not
we checked the source before we published the story?'' Yu demanded in a
phone interview. ''How can you prove it's not correct?''" -By
Henry Chu-LAtimes
via
-Boston/Globe
SATIRE ALERT One of my favorites Onion articles: "Area Man Consults Internet Whenever Possible." -TheOnion.com From the AP via WashingtonPost: "Beijing Evening News (requires Chinese-character software): www.bjd.com.cn" ---------------------------- |
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