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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Giles Turnbull is a freelance writer in England. He also writes for the Press Association and The Morning News. You can find out more at his website, and follow him on Twitter @gilest.
2 responses to “Tabloid Newspaper Discovers Basic Science”
There’s a long history of our tabloid papers being hoaxed. The Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/tech… has a different take on the onion story.