Mondo Times editors Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 3:21pm on Friday, September 4th, 2009 |
Two Bangladesh newspapers, the New Nation and the Daily Manab Zamin, decided to rely on the satirical American newspaper The Onion for their news with predictable results, the BBC reported on September 4, 2009:
"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 full story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8237558.stm
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