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Saturday, June 8, 2002
Beijing paper falls for gag in American tabloid
BEIJING, June 7 (Reuters) - Beijing's most popular newspaper has unwittingly
republished a bogus story about U.S. Congress threats to skip town for Memphis or
Charlotte unless Washington builds them a new Capitol building with a retractable
dome.
The source? America's celebrated spoof tabloid, the Onion.
The Beijing Evening News, which claims a circulation of 1.25 million, translated
portions of the Onion's tall tale word-for-word in the international news page of its
June 3 edition.
The reprinted version of the May 29 article, which parodies Congress as a Major
League Baseball squad, also copied the Onion's would-be blueprint for a new
legislative home that resembles a ballpark.
"Don't get us wrong: We love the drafty old building," the Onion jestingly quoted
House Speaker Dennis Hastert saying.
"But the hard reality is, it's no longer suitable for a world-class legislative
branch. The
sight lines are bad, there aren't enough concession stands or bathrooms, and the
parking is miserable."
The spoof from the brazen entertainment tabloid, which dubs itself "America's finest
news source," apparently took in the Evening News.
"The story was written by one of our freelance writers," an editor at the Evening
News told Reuters on Friday. "His stuff has been pretty much reliable before."
The editor said he had received other calls from readers about the article. "They
were also suspicious of the contents."
Told the story came from the Onion and was not true, the editor said, "We would first
have to check that out. If it's indeed fake, I'm sure there will be some form of
correction."
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