The Onion fools the NYT with fake Obama Tiger Beat cover
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Today The New York Times admitted they made the mistake of treating a fake creation from The Onion as something legitimate. Last week the Times printed an article documenting the history of the squeaky-clean teen magazine Tiger Beat, and included a retrospective of past magazine covers. Unfortunately (or humorously depending on one’s perspective), in the collection they also included a parody cover created by The Onion, which featured President Obama.Story http://www.mediaite.com/print/the-onion-fools-the-new-york-times-with-f… here . Just gotta love The Onion sometimes. http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys.php: http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-laughing017.gif
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I once heard a sermon in which an Onion article on J.K. Rowling was quoted as fact.
Despair does not lie in being weary of suffering, but in being weary of joy. G.K. Chesterton
I remember a preacher a few years ago using information from a forwarded email as a source, and it so happened that I had received the same email and looked it up on Snopes, and it was a scam of some kind. Oy vey.
[dan] I once heard a sermon in which an Onion article on J.K. Rowling was quoted as fact.Yes, if it is http://www.theonion.com/articles/harry-potter-books-spark-rise-in-satan… this one , the article was being given out as a “warning handout” in a church about 30 miles south of ours. I was handed a copy by a member of our church and asked about it.
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