sannse wrote:
'Course, it's not the first time it's been mistaken for the real thing
- there was the famous Harry Potter flap...
And also the time the newspaper _/Beijing Evening News_/ (circulation 1.25 million) reported as fact the Onion story about how Congress was threatening to leave Washington DC for another city if they didn't build a new Capitol building with a retractable dome.
http://www.kuro5hin.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2002/6/7/41557/70467 http://wired-vig.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,53048,00.html