Fox fooled by "Muslim ban on padded bras" hoax

[kpete]

Fox fooled by "Muslim ban on padded bras" hoax
The Fox Nation website picked up a satire about a Pakistani anti-bra protest and presented it as fact

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A Fox News website has picked up a hoax story about an Islamic council in Pakistan protesting the use of padded and colorful bras and presented it as fact.

The story, which is still featured on Fox News' Fox Nation website, was illustrated with a picture of a woman's mid-section and carried the headline "Pakistan: Islamic Clerics Protest Women Wearing Padded Bras as 'Devil’s Cushions.'" (UPDATE 9:30: Fox has now pulled the story. See the original here.http://twitpic.com/49f8e9 ) The lead of the Fox Nation story, which sources the piece to the Indian news website sify.com, reads:

*****The Council of Islamic Ideology in Pakistan has protested the use of padded and colourful bras by Muslim women, and recommended that Pakistani Muslim researchers should try to invent an innerwear that makes female assets unnoticeable.

The problem is, if one takes the time to track the story back to its source, the whole thing is an obvious Onion-style satire -- a fact first pointed out by Arif Rafiq of the Pakistan Policy Blog.

hahahhaha more:
http://mobile.salon.com/politics/war_room/2011/03/14/fox_nation_pakistan_padded_bras/index.html

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http://www.roznamajawani.com/?p=1117
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[monmouth]

1. Where was MFMom at the time this hoax was perpetrated

[RedCloud]

2. So they don't keep abreast of the news?