The Onion Isn't A News Site?
One giant slip in Bangladesh news
"Two Bangladeshi newspapers have apologised after publishing an article taken from a satirical US website which claimed the Moon landings were faked.
The Daily Manab Zamin said US astronaut Neil Armstrong had shocked a news conference by saying he now knew it had been an "elaborate hoax".
Neither they nor the New Nation, which later picked up the story, realised the Onion was not a genuine news site.
Both have now apologised to their readers for not checking the story.
"We thought it was true so we printed it without checking," associate editor Hasanuzzuman Khan told the AFP news agency.
"We didn't know the Onion was not a real news site."
The article said Mr 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.
The truth is that Neil Armstrong never gave such an interview. It was made up.
"It took only a few hastily written paragraphs published by this passionate denier of mankind's so-called 'greatest technological achievement' for me to realise I had been living a lie," the fake article "quoted" Mr Armstrong as saying.
The made-up quote went on to say that although the journey had felt real, in fact "the entire thing was filmed on a sound stage, most likely in New Mexico".
"I suppose it really was one small step for man, one giant lie for mankind."
"Two Bangladeshi newspapers have apologised after publishing an article taken from a satirical US website which claimed the Moon landings were faked.
The Daily Manab Zamin said US astronaut Neil Armstrong had shocked a news conference by saying he now knew it had been an "elaborate hoax".
Neither they nor the New Nation, which later picked up the story, realised the Onion was not a genuine news site.
Both have now apologised to their readers for not checking the story.
"We thought it was true so we printed it without checking," associate editor Hasanuzzuman Khan told the AFP news agency.
"We didn't know the Onion was not a real news site."
The article said Mr 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.
The truth is that Neil Armstrong never gave such an interview. It was made up.
"It took only a few hastily written paragraphs published by this passionate denier of mankind's so-called 'greatest technological achievement' for me to realise I had been living a lie," the fake article "quoted" Mr Armstrong as saying.
The made-up quote went on to say that although the journey had felt real, in fact "the entire thing was filmed on a sound stage, most likely in New Mexico".
"I suppose it really was one small step for man, one giant lie for mankind."
posted by patootie at 5:45 AM
3 Comments:
In the use of satire to get the real message across, The Onion has no peer.
Especially when compared to the Corporate Media.
Can we see the actual Onion broadcast of this story?
Also, the BBC has a long history or being arrogant about telling its Official Lies. It flirts with the truth as a snickering winking silent message to its handlers....Ha ha...look at the idiots...we can lie to them bald faced and then slip a little truthiness in just to show that WE are not taken in by our own lies.
(See, for example, the showing of WTC7 in the background on 9/11 still standing while the talking heads report that it has collapsed. The BBC doesn't even have t account for that!)
That's so true about satire getting the message across dad, especially these days when Jon Stewart is now the most trusted man in media.
Here's a link to that Onion article that fooled them. And it's a testament to Onion's genious that they're so good people will believe them. Also, their impact is such now that when you come across some bizarre story you think to yourself "Is this an Onion piece or what?"
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