Onion now a reputable news source?

[cristo]

Well, at least in Bangladesh it is!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/8237558.stm

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, realized 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.

 

[Evo]

<snork>

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Funny! Pretty soon they will be quoting The Turnip as well.

 

[Tobias Funke]

Some newspaper in China made the same mistake a few years ago. I think this is the article that fooled them:

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/27828

They blamed their stupidity on The Onion for being meanie-heads and tricking them.

 

[Pengwuino]

"We thought it was true so we printed it without checking..."

Jesus Christ...