Friday, September 30, 2011

The Onion's Fake News and Horrifying Real News

Juxtaposed images and items involving children. One has hints of the fake staged terror events put on in schools I've been commenting about on The Orange Orb and Octopus Confessional. Even though the story is false -- it's from The Onion -- it contains elements of those actual stories of false terror events.
The Onion tweeted:
"BREAKING: Capitol building being evacuated. 12 children held hostage by group of armed congressmen."
While The Onion is a satirical fake "news" operation, and this story, like all their stories, is completely untrue, this particular "story" of theirs concerned children and upset a lot of people. It was juxtaposed with the very real and horrifying news out of Mexico of a bag with five human heads left outside an Acapulco elementary school as a warning from drug cartels.

When I did a search at the R-G site for the item it wasn't there. But here's something from the Huffington Post about The Onion piece.

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