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Beijing Newspaper Spoofed by The Onion
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Beijing Newspaper Spoofed by The Onion
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It could be worse... (Score:5, Funny)
I can imagine them running through the streets of Beijing saying "Look at the size of that thing!" and "That's no moon!"
Or (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Or (Score:5, Insightful)
Good point. This is actually a very serious introduction to some of the key points of modern Islamic fundamentalism. When I first read it I went looked up Qutb. No other major media outlet that I know of has bothered to give people the starting point to actually find out how and why bin Laden came to be.
Ignore The Onion at your peril.
Re:Or (Score:4, Insightful)
For anyone who hasn't seen it, the article "Talking To Your Child About the WTC Attack [theonion.com]" is online. In fact, their entire "Holy Fucking Shit: America Under Attack [theonion.com]" It's the single most brilliant issue of the Onion ever. It captured the fear, the uncertainly, the random lashing out. It reflected America in a way that no other news source had done. It managed to be respectful and sad, yet very funny. It was exactly what America needed.
I heard This (Score:3, Funny)
but anyways I guess this just shows that you have to choose a source carefully.. I mean who really needs a new capital with a retracting dome and stadium seating?
Best Onion Headline... (Score:4, Funny)
Shameless Karma Whoring (Score:3, Informative)
In case anyone's interested, the Onion article is here [theonion.com]! (No goatse.cx links, sorry!)
TOTALLY believable!
I can see it now... (Score:5, Funny)
Teacher: Gambit, you didn't write this!
Gambit: uh, well...
Teacher: You COPIED this, didn't you?
Gambit: Well, maybe a little...
Teacher: That's PLAGIARISM! Where do you think you're going to end up if you just copy other people's article??
Gambit: Hopefully on Slashdot?
Holy Fucking Shit (Score:5, Interesting)
The Holy Fucking Shit [theonion.com] edition of The Onion was one of the finest pieces of literature serious or satirical published about the September 11 bombings. Before the HFS edition, I merely thought The Onion was funny. Afterwards, I respected The Onion.
In the middle of all the hysteria, screaming panic, and horror, The Onion *dared* to go in and examine the ridiculousness of not only what had happened but what was happening because of it.
Good work guys!
Beijing Evening News (Score:4, Funny)
CowboyNeal, Q.E.D. 20%
a^2+b^2=c^2 17%
algore 0.41%
(source:slashdot.org)
Re: Poll results (Score:4, Funny)
After all, the poll was about the most popular mathematical al-gore-rithm.
Slashdot has done this before as well (Score:5, Insightful)
I guesse we could say: Beijing Newspaper. YHBT. YHL. HAND.
Re:Slashdot has done this before as well (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, but this is completely different! The Beijing evening news is a for-profit publication with a staff of paid professional editors, whereas Slashdot is... no, wait... what was I saying again?
Re:Slashdot has done this before as well (Score:5, Funny)
Fear. Uncertainty. Doubt. The Onion. (Score:5, Funny)
The staff of Readers Digest was kind enough to point out the woman's error.
Re:Fear. Uncertainty. Doubt. The Onion. (Score:4, Informative)
In case you hadn't noticed, rugby is actually a shortened name for Rugby Football. Football refers to lots of sports. The word "soccer" comes from the UK (I heard this on a BBC program about the sport). The US retained the name to prevent confusion from the other sport Americans played known as "football". Meanwhile, the rest of the world changed the other "football" sports to "rugby" (or any of a number of other names--the name really referred to hundreds of sports in the 1800s).
Since the UK invented football/soccer, and then codified its rules and named it "soccer", then the Americans can claim to be correct in calling it "soccer".
Here's a link [11v11.co.uk] to the origins of football/soccer. I can't find a reference as to when the name was assigned. You'll have to take my word on it (or do your own research). But the name definitely did not originate in the U.S.
Even funnier... (Score:3, Funny)
While we're talking about the Onion... (Score:5, Interesting)
http://www.theonion.com/onion3734/god_clarifies_do nt_kill.html [theonion.com]
Not only is it funny, but also deeply insightful, even for an atheist like me.
My coworkers believed the "Post Office 5 cent e-ma (Score:3, Interesting)
Sadly, my coworkers insisted that the post office must be lying, because "They wouldn't put it on the radio if it weren't true!" (Yes, that is a real quote)
It was read on WAAF (bottom of the dung pile "rock" station) by "Mistress Carrie" for crying out loud!
And then there was the time Hillary Clinton was asked about her stance on the bill during an interview...
Onion founder's former comments on the issue (Score:5, Interesting)
He said that the biggest problem was email forwards from people who consider it a news release, and in the email there is not the rest of the onion's site for context, so people don't know it is a parody.
He said the 2 that generated the most amount of letters from concerned citizens, up to that point in time, was "Chinese woman gives birth to septuplets, doesn't know which one to keep" and "New York to install infant-only dumpsters".
Sounds Familiar ... (Score:3, Interesting)
Well. One of these things he sent me a few years ago was about how the Harry Potter books were teaching our kids satanism and witchcraft and such. Now this thing was sent in all seriousness, with quotes from children (something about sucking Satan's "gigantic black cock", I don't quite recall). Anyway, he was dead serious that this was a problem that all "good christians" should take immediate action against.
Now I would normally just delete these things after getting a good laugh, since I really do like the guy despite this kind of evangelical nonsense. What caught my eye was the link to the article he was quoting from - it was (ta da) from The Onion. I nearly fell out of my chair at work from laughing so hard.
This makes me wonder.... (Score:3, Funny)
Are they actually doing their own R&D, or just feverishly combing the Internet trying to find out how to make Cavorite? [pagebypagebooks.com]
~Philly
Irony (Score:4, Funny)
We're reading a story on a niche news site about a story on a popular news site about a story in a major newspaper (albeit in China) taken from a site that lampoons the news.
If you think the Chinese are gullible, the US is.. (Score:5, Funny)
here [radio.cbc.ca]
and here [cbc.ca]
Satire and Freedom of Speech (Score:3, Insightful)
In our open society, we take freedom of the press to the extreme by publishing just about anything. It forces people to read news with a critical eye, which carries over to various aspects of out life. In a society where all information and editorial is controlled and filtered heavily, is it a surprise that "news" and "critical thinking" don't always go hand in hand.
I'm not trying to slight the Chinese here, I'm sure there are plenty of US Citizens who pick up the Onion and believe it as fact -- I'm sure it would confuse the heck out of my grandmother. And how many times have you seen someone repost a good April Fools joke as fact?
So yes, it's funny, but apply your critical thinking and take it in context -- that the world is full of gullible people.
Word Choice for Title! (Score:5, Informative)
If they were Spoofed then you would have seen an article on The Onion about Beijing and not an article about some news station in Beijing using a story on The Onion.