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Area man mistakes Onion story for reality

Hapless antiabortion blogger's humiliation spans globe thanks to amazing new "World Wide Web."
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  • Friday, July 14, 2006 09:26 AM

    China

    The Beijing Evening News also had trouble letting go of their plagarised Onion piece. When confronted by an LA Times columnist, their editor said:

    "How do you know whether or not we checked the source before we published the story? How can you prove it's not correct?"

    It wasn't until many papers in the US wrote about their mistake that the Beijing paper published a correction.

    Jason

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