Tabloid Newspaper Discovers Basic Science
3:18 pm, November 24th, 2008, Giles Turnbull
Whacky journo types at the Super Soaraway Sun (as it used to be known when I was a lad) have discovered that you can turn VEGETABLES into BATTERIES.
Sun senior editors, average age 57, found that they could fill a few precious inches of newsprint with a story of a man who recharges his iPod with an onion, a technique well documented in school-level science for donkeys years.
An onlooker said: “If they hadn’t been able to get an iPod angle on it, they’d never have considered it as a story at all.
“But anything iPod is worth a hundred words here and there, mainly because everyone in the newsroom owns one.”
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Posted by Giles Turnbull in Humor, News, iPod | Comment on this article
There’s a long history of our tabloid papers being hoaxed. The Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/nov/25/ipod) has a different take on the onion story.
Kris Jones, on November 24th, 2008 at 8:06 pm