The Onion Fools The New York Times With Fake Obama Tiger Beat Cover

[Newsjock]

Source: Mediaite

Today The New York Times admitted they made the mistake of treating a fake creation from The Onion as something legitimate. Last week the Times printed an article documenting the history of the squeaky-clean teen magazine Tiger Beat, and included a retrospective of past magazine covers. Unfortunately (or humorously depending on one’s perspective), in the collection they also included a parody cover created by The Onion, which featured President Obama.

The correction printed today in the Times:

A series of pictures last Sunday of covers of the magazine Tiger Beat, with an article about how the original teen-girl tabloid has remained virtually unchanged since its inception in 1965, erroneously included a parody cover, produced by the satiric newspaper The Onion, that featured a picture of President Obama.

Read more: http://www.mediaite.com/print/the-onion-fools-the-new-york-times-with-fake-obama-tiger-beat-cover/

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[xchrom]

1. 'best newspaper in the world' my ass. Nt

[harmonicon]

5. The New York Times has been a joke for at least a decade.

The only newspaper I'd put any stake in is The Guardian, but even then, not much. Newspapers are over, and they've done it to themselves.

[Joe Bacon]

11. "All the BS The Republicans Tell Us To Print"

That's the real slogan of the Screw York Times. Outside of Krugman, everything else they publish is mediocre bullshit.

[valerief]

17. +1

[HankyDubs]

2. hahahahahaha

The onion always wins.

[Pirate Smile]

12. Hilarious. I saw this again last week and it made me laugh my ass off.

Poll: Happy, Healthy Obamas Out Of Touch With Miserable Americans
Panelists discuss whether Obama's openly loving family is a slap in the face to the average American who only bears feelings of resentment towards relatives.

http://www.theonion.com/video/poll-happy-healthy-obamas-out-of-touch-with-misera,14372/

[TheEuclideanOne]

20. Amazing how similar that is to Fox

:)

[AlbertCat]

22. Hilarious.

Indeed.

I wish I could find the graphic on line from their book "Our Dumb World" that shows the progression of plate tectonics.

1st there's an image of Pangaea, then an image of Laurasia and Gondwana (the 2 big continents Pangaea broke into), Then an image of the continents today with North America in the middle...

Last a future view with the USA alone in a vast sea... as every other continent moves as far away as possible.

Hilarious!

[eShirl]

3. LMAO over here!

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

4. From an idea and 2 sources to no sources.

This is the state of your media.

[nashville_brook]

6. that's going to come in handy -- :)

[Lorien]

34. You know it!

We know more than a few people in GD : P who will be devastated that it isn't real. ;-)

[BOG PERSON]

7. god bless the Onion

[AsahinaKimi]

8. I wonder how many Onion pranks

Fox News has fallen for?

[TheEuclideanOne]

25. Only the absolute stupidest of us can fall for The Onion today.

I seriously wonder how somebody can miss this today. The Onion has changed to help brand itself, methinks, by making it really obvious that they are "The Onion". A while back, it was much more subtle. Today, you have to put your Stupidity Gears in overdrive to mistake it.

[Demeter]

29. Nowadays, the Onion Is the Most Reliable News Source in Print

and with the Daily Show and the Colbert Report and Rachel, our best insight into what's going down, as well as predictions of what will be going down next.

[Pacifist Patriot]

39. I don't know....

I get tweets from The Onion as well as Breaking News from MSNBC, CNN or BBC. I have a tendency to read the headline before glancing at the source. There have been times I would have sworn I was reading something sent by a media outlet only to find it came from the Onion. Our world is more and more bizarre each day! Now would I be fooled long enough to forward a headline or full story to someone? I think not.

[Ratty]

42. Reverse Onionization

Where you see a headline and wrongly assume it's from the Onion. Happens to me here on DU all the time.

[NewJeffCT]

9. I guess this puts them in the same category as Fox

Fox has gotten fooled by the Onion a few times as well.

[Garbo 2004]

10. Newspaper of record idiots. What next? Bat Boy?

The Onion folks probably laughing their asses off, shaking their heads.

[madrchsod]

13. it`s called----FACT CHECKING!

[rpannier]

14. I'm sure they wish someone had called them to tell them it wasn't true before they printed it nt

[NewJeffCT]

26. What did Rachel Maddow say about her staff?

something like they have library cards and know how to use them?

[paparush]

15. The sorry state of journalism in America.

[underpants]

16. ...and the "six or eight" Judith Miller pre-war leaked to reference on Sunday morning talk shows?

YEah we got a retraction and then nobody talked about it

The 1,000,000 dead in the Iraq War was not possible with out the New York Times

Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk,

I'm a woman's man: no time to talk.

Music loud and women warm.

I've been kicked around since I was born.

And now it's all right - it's O.K. -

And you may look the other way.

We can try to understand the New York Times' effect on man.

Whether you're a brother or whether you're a mother,

You're stayin alive, stayin' alive.
http://www.allthelyrics.com/lyrics/saturday_night_fever_soundtrack/saturday_night_fever/


When the New York Times said God is dead
And the war's begun
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/levon-lyrics-elton-john/abc9797e00b5a25648256876002aed95

[Libertas1776]

18. the Old Gray Lady...

has become a two dollar hooker.

[tabasco]

19. Hahahahahahahaha!

A small town newspaper would be embarrassed by this.

The NY Times is officially a joke.

[EFerrari]

21. LOL

[BrklynLiberal]

23. More like the old grey mare, than the old gray lady....

[Capitalocracy]

24. Google image search but VERIFY!

:rofl:

[Keith Bee]

27. Gee, I wonder why so many people get their "news" from Stewart & Colbert?

:rofl:

[KurtNYC]

28. Chinese media picked up an Onion story and they reported that

Congress was refusing to reconvene in DC until the House of Congress was updated with a retractable roof. They have a whole cultural thing to blame for that but the NYT ?

From The Onion story: "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."

Full story in Wired 2002:
http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2002/06/53048

[Botany]

30. The paper of record

[forty6]

31. Maybe Obama DOES sing in the shower!!! Only Michelle would

be able to verify that story.

And yes, I sing in the shower, so why not the PREZ?

[dballance]

32. Between Judith Miller and Jayson Blair How can anyone take the NY Times Seriously

How can anyone believe a word the Times prints given its history of reporters who are liers?

[rocktivity]

33. Are you sure THIS isn't a Onion story?

I mean, while it's funny enough when foreign legitimate publications do this, they at least have the luxury of using the excuse of being foreign. But the NEW YORK TIMES???

Today, the supermarket tabloids -- tomorrow, the teenyboppers!

P.S. Here's the original: "According to a poll released Monday by Teen Zogby!, both Barack Obama's approval and dreaminess ratings...have risen to 82 percent..."

:rofl:
rocktivity

[Withywindle]

35. That's what happens when editors, fact-checkers, and proofreaders get laid off

The rampant embarrassing inaccuracies in major newspapers of late can frankly be traced to layoffs, cutbacks, downsizing, etc.


When I worked for a free weekly newspaper in the 90s, every single piece of copy made several rounds through at least a half-dozen pairs of very intelligent eyes. I mean, I'm talking about the 60-word movie blurbs here. Cover images required sign-offs from at least two senior editors even after they'd passed the grunt gauntlet.

The fewer people you have doing the critical work, the faster copy is expected to move, the more intimidated and inexperienced (and cheaply-paid) the workers are, the more shit like this will be inevitable.

[freshwest]

36. +100

[Blue_Tires]

38. thanks for mentioning this

(former reporter and copy editor)

[Pacifist Patriot]

40. You better believe it.

Many members of my family used to be in the newspaper business and one still is peripherally. Newsroom layoffs have completely changed the content of local and regional dailies and weeklies. The content gaffs would be funny if they weren't based on greed.

[KoKo]

41. Good point there! When I worked in publishing every word and sentence

was proofread, copy edited and checked for accuracy,and had to be verified by several sources. Those days are gone..leaving much up to computer programs or inexperienced "Google Searchers" for fact-checking and accuracy in content.

[Book Lover]

44. This. THIS!!!

What else need be said?

[deacon]

37. Splatttttttttt. Wow, that 'news' outlet must be in disarray. n/t

[KansDem]

43. Ever since Judith Miller and the NYT help Bush lie us into the Iraq invasion.

The "Gray Lady" has been relegated to walking the streets...