Chinese Newspaper Fooled by Onion Article
from the too-rich dept.
I love this one. The Beijing Evening News, one of the largest-circulation dailies in China, earlier this week ran a story about how the U.S. Congress was threatening to move out of the Capitol building unless it was renovated. The only problem was, the article was a complete fabrication, copied more or less verbatim from a story that ran recently in The Onion. Even better, when contacted by phone for comment, the Chinese paper’s international editor got pissy, demanding, “How do you know whether or not we checked the source before we published the story?”
