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Onion Stories Reported as Fact

By Red Wolf

15 April 2004

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The Onion‘s deadpan satirical news-stories, much-forwarded and chuckled over, have frequently been reported as fact by various news agencies, law-enforcement departments, and pressure groups

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The Pagan Prattle Online

19 April 2004 at 10.10 pm

STOP laughing at them

Canada: It’s not only Chinese newspapers falling for stories in The Onion – fundies are too, and they don’t have the excuse that English is not their first language, or that they are dealing with material from a culture other than the one they live in…