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Unsophisticated journalists routinely fall for Onion articles getting picked up as actual news items. I can only wonder how often they're going to get pranked
by jxf 12y ago
Unsophisticated journalists routinely fall for Onion articles getting picked up as actual news items.
I can only wonder how often they're going to get pranked by something that really does look like a news site but for a subtle change.
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- batmansbelt 12y agoSome pretty big news organizations have run with Onion sources and / or wikipedia falsehoods.
- pyre 12y agoThere was that one case where it created a circular reference too. [E.g. Journalist creates an unsubstantiated article about something on Wikipedia. Eventually Wikipedia cites said article as a reference. ]
- tlrobinson 12y agoThe Brazilian aardvark? http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2014/05/how-a-raccoon-became-an-aardvark.html http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2014/05/how-a...
- krrishd 12y agoFox News was one of them IIRC.
- gedrap 12y agoOh yeah. What amuses me even more is people finding a link to Onion-style blog post and not realising that it's parody/sarcasm/whatever (e.g. Swedish House Mafia is sued by Swedish Mafia for copyright infringement). Sometimes I point that out, and usually get a response "how do you know it's not real? do you know all the news of the world?". People like that make me believe in the trolling power of this tool.
- iak8god 12y agoYou might like this: http://literallyunbelievable.org/ http://literallyunbelievable.org/
- walden42 12y agoSoon we'll have people posting tweets with links to BBC/CNN articles with bogus info in it, and other journalists will start taking that information.