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December 16, 2003
NOT THE ONION
Last Saturday Straight Up had an item, THE FUNNY PAGES, noting that an obit correction in The New York Times "read like a satire from The Onion," as did a David Brooks column. We also pointed out that "a tidbit from Reuters" about Italy's multibillionaire prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, was "too funny for The Onion."
Two days later, on Monday, Elizabeth Spiers was wondering in her New York magazine blog, The Kicker, about an oddball news story on Madonna and whether she could believe it. "I keep checking the dateline on this to make sure it still says 'Reuters' and not 'The Onion,'" she wrote. "Hold on a second...yep, still Reuters." Is it something in the air? Has something happened at Reuters that we don't know about? Does anyone care to start a Not the Onion blog?
Posted by at December 16, 2003 01:55 AM