Forgoing Fact Checking Isn’t Just Limited To Our MSM!
By
Spartacus
on September 23, 2009 at 01:33 pm
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.
“We thought it was true so we printed it without checking.”
“We didn’t know the Onion was not a real news site.”
h/t doubleplusundead
