It would be unfair to single out foreign media as the only victims of The Onion's straight-faced wit, since the US media have fallen for its stories as well.
In 2010, Fox News' Fox Nation subsite treated entitled "Frustrated Obama Sends Nation Rambling 75,000-Word E-Mail" as fact 鈥� as did numerous commenters on the story, .
In 2004, MSNBC's Deborah Norville as saying "58 percent of all the exercise done in America is broadcast on television. For instance, of the 3.5 billion sit-ups done during 2003, two million, 30,000 of them were on exercise shows on Lifetime or one of the ESPN channels." That study was, naturally, .
And The Onion continues to fool readers every day, as the website reveals.
The Monitor is not presently aware of having treated a story from The Onion as factual. But The Onion's writers are quite clever, so the possibility can't be ruled out.
