Bangladeshi Paper Confirms Moon Landings as Genuine

[somekindarobot]

Interesting, this is the same Onion article from the Onion newspaper I picked up this week. How vaguely coincidental. Though perhaps they rushed the story out of excitement of the prospect that, if America was not the first country on the moon and no one else did, perhaps Bangladesh could be first! The correction was a serious blow to the Bangladesh Space Administration's morale, to be sure.

 

[randommaster]

Yeah it does take a certain type of publication to issue an apology, so all is well. The Onion is done very well though, I'm not surprised.

This still isn't even close to the Spanish news Monkey Island grog debacle. "I did some research on SCUMM, it seems to be some kind of alcohol delivery service" Oh god, that was classic...

This has happened before in China, but it was even worse because they just lifted the entire article instead of writing anything on their own. If I remember correctly the article was about the U.S. wanting to move Congress because the senators and representatives didn't like the scenery.

Let's not forget these were Bangladeshi news men (and women) who probably had never heard of the Onion before (Is the Onion well known outside of the west?). Good on them for retracting it and admitting there mistake so publicly. They've learned their lesson and can now move on.

Bangladeshi newspaper. They probably translated the title but didn't understand the connotations; besides, it's not like western publishers haven't made the same mistake. All fairness granted, they should've investigated further, but they probably didn't notice the Onion's clever use of tone and language choices to highlight the parody due to translation. Also, the Onion's layout and presentation is almost spot-on for a high-quality commercial news site.

It's happened in the U.S. as well. One of my college professors said that when they were working for the postal service one guy came running into the building in a panic because The Onion had run an article saying that the postal service in the U.S. would be discontinued.

 

[martin's a madman]

If I may, the onion is a lie.

 

[Krakyn]

Good on them for retracting it and admitting there mistake so publicly.

Why are we giving a newspaper credit for admitting their mistakes? Newspapers are supposed to provide fact, i.e. news. If they make a mistake, they're obligated to correct it.

We shouldn't give a newspaper credit for doing what they're supposed to do. We should just be outraged if they don't.

 

[Daruth_Winterwood]

Hahahaha

 

[TsunamiWombat]

And the Real Lunar Landing conspiracy pulls the wool over the publics eye again.

IT DIDN'T HAPPEN PEOPLE! YOUR CHILDHOOD WAS A LIIIEE!

 

[somekindarobot]

And the Real Lunar Landing conspiracy pulls the wool over the publics eye again.

IT DIDN'T HAPPEN PEOPLE! YOUR CHILDHOOD WAS A LIIIEE!

Dear god. You aren't serious, are you?

 

[John Stalvern]

I find it hilarious that news agencies across the world have been fooled by blatant satire so many times.

 

[DarkRyter]

The Onion

Fucking geniuses, they are.

 

[paragon1]

LETS GIVE THREE CHEERS FOR JOURNALISTIC INTEGRITY!!!
HIP,HIP, HOORAY! HIP, HIP, HOORAY! HIP, HIP, HOORAY!

 

[paragon1]

Good thing they didn't say it to Buzz Aldrin

Let this be a lesson to everyone. Don't. Fuck. With. Old. People.

 

[Capo Taco]

It's part of a bigger coverup!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/6105902/Moon-rock-given-to-Holland-by-Neil-Armstrong-and-Buzz-Aldrin-is-fake.html

 

[AvsJoe]

The first time I stumbled upon the Onion I was laughing so hard I was in tears. That's probably how they came up with the name.

LETS GIVE THREE CHEERS FOR JOURNALISTIC INTEGRITY!!!
HIP,HIP, HOORAY! HIP, HIP, HOORAY! HIP, HIP, HOORAY!

Hooray!

 

[Altorin]

This Just In

Onion Trolls Bengladesh

that's awesome.

 

[LilGherkin]

Oh woah.

...How can you seriously take an online news site called Onion seriously?

They tricked me too, the first onion newspaper I saw had the guy from the Soprano's shot dead at a restaurant because a fan wasn't happy with how it ended. It seemed realistic enough at the time.

 

[Overlord2702]

This reminds me of how the NASA lost the origonal flim of the moonlanding. "we taped over it, sorry"

back on topic
its quite a big problem now is news "reporters" claiming something they herd to be "the fact" without checking the sorce out or getting any facts to back it up.

 

[samsonguy920]

And the Real Lunar Landing conspiracy pulls the wool over the publics eye again.

IT DIDN'T HAPPEN PEOPLE! YOUR CHILDHOOD WAS A LIIIEE!

Dear god. You aren't serious, are you?

I think he is speaking of the conspiracy to prove the staged lunar landing is a hoax, and that we actually landed on the moon.

 

[Kermi]

The Onion is still America's finest news source.

 

[Generic_Dave]

Good on them for retracting it and admitting there mistake so publicly.

Why are we giving a newspaper credit for admitting their mistakes? Newspapers are supposed to provide fact, i.e. news. If they make a mistake, they're obligated to correct it.

We shouldn't give a newspaper credit for doing what they're supposed to do. We should just be outraged if they don't.

We should, but mostly we're not. Lies get published everyday, and they get accepted as fact, and maybe, if the lie is caught there's a retraction on page 59Z for the front page bull they posted two months earlier. Which no-one ever sees...others...well other lies get published and no-one ever apologises...(WMD's in Iraq, I'm looking at you.)...

 

[Sixties Spidey]

The Onion is probably shitting bricks with laughter by now.