Posted by
ryuzaki0
on from the eat-that-suckers dept.
mattsucks writes "Reuters is reporting a story about the Beijing Evening News. Apparently, they too believe that everything they read on the internet is true, republishing a story from The Onion. Or at least one of their freelance writers believes it...." This is absolutely great.
Democracy won't help
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tlhf
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Kuro5hin.org, the proof of concept democratic group blog, has already posted this, a few days earlier than slashdot. It got voted to front page.
tlhf
xxx
Lifting articles in China
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jkastner
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My girlfriend's sister is editor of Buisness China, a Shanghai based Economist publication (in English) which comes out every fortnight. She is always having to watch out for her freelancers lifting articles from other English language sources. The freelancers figure that they are so far off the beaten track they can get away with it. But they quickly find out how much she reads.
Re:Fear. Uncertainty. Doubt. The Onion.
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Anonymous Coward
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No, I mean football... as in: a sport played right across the world with the *feet* and a ball.
American Football is rugby for padded-up homosexuals.
Re:Slashdot has done this before as well
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RAVasquez
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Slashdot does not plagarize stories because it ONLY references other published articles with the exception of Jonathan Katz's work, which very well could be plagarizing pieces appearing in the Weekly World News.
There's no need to trash Jonathan Katz's reputation. After all, he's a professional therapist, not a journalist. "Jon Katz," perhaps?
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Re:Fear. Uncertainty. Doubt. The Onion.
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The+Mayor
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The British are responsible for naming it "soccer". Aparantly, in the 1800s, many games were known as "football"--it referred to almost any sport played with a ball and two teams. The Football Association decided to codify the rules of what Americans call "soccer". Through a twist of abbreviations and name changes, the name got translated into "soccer" (the "soc" was from the word "association", and I guess "soccer" was easier to say than "the Football Association Football". To this day, you'll still find "soccer" stores (using that name) in the United Kingdom.
In case you hadn't noticed, rugby is actually a shortened name for Rugby Football. Football refers to lots of sports. The word "soccer" comes from the UK (I heard this on a BBC program about the sport). The US retained the name to prevent confusion from the other sport Americans played known as "football". Meanwhile, the rest of the world changed the other "football" sports to "rugby" (or any of a number of other names--the name really referred to hundreds of sports in the 1800s).
Since the UK invented football/soccer, and then codified its rules and named it "soccer", then the Americans can claim to be correct in calling it "soccer".
Here's a link to the origins of football/soccer. I can't find a reference as to when the name was assigned. You'll have to take my word on it (or do your own research). But the name definitely did not originate in the U.S.
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Word Choice for Title!
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ArcadeNut
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Not to be picky here, but they were not "SPOOFED" by The Onion, they were "DUPED".
If they were Spoofed then you would have seen an article on The Onion about Beijing and not an article about some news station in Beijing using a story on The Onion.
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Re:If you think the Chinese are gullible, the US i
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Hydro-X
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Slashdot Mirror
In case anyone's interested, the Onion article is here! (No goatse.cx links, sorry!)
TOTALLY believable!
"Why did they cancel my favorite Sci-Fi show? I downloaded ALL the episodes!"
Another online news story about this is here.
Kuro5hin.org, the proof of concept democratic group blog, has already posted this, a few days earlier than slashdot. It got voted to front page.
tlhf
xxx
My girlfriend's sister is editor of Buisness China, a Shanghai based Economist publication (in English) which comes out every fortnight. She is always having to watch out for her freelancers lifting articles from other English language sources. The freelancers figure that they are so far off the beaten track they can get away with it. But they quickly find out how much she reads.
No, I mean football... as in: a sport played right across the world with the *feet* and a ball.
American Football is rugby for padded-up homosexuals.
Slashdot does not plagarize stories because it ONLY references other published articles with the exception of Jonathan Katz's work, which very well could be plagarizing pieces appearing in the Weekly World News.
There's no need to trash Jonathan Katz's reputation. After all, he's a professional therapist, not a journalist. "Jon Katz," perhaps?
--- Work, worry, consume, die. It's a wonderful life. -- Bill Griffith
The British are responsible for naming it "soccer". Aparantly, in the 1800s, many games were known as "football"--it referred to almost any sport played with a ball and two teams. The Football Association decided to codify the rules of what Americans call "soccer". Through a twist of abbreviations and name changes, the name got translated into "soccer" (the "soc" was from the word "association", and I guess "soccer" was easier to say than "the Football Association Football". To this day, you'll still find "soccer" stores (using that name) in the United Kingdom.
In case you hadn't noticed, rugby is actually a shortened name for Rugby Football. Football refers to lots of sports. The word "soccer" comes from the UK (I heard this on a BBC program about the sport). The US retained the name to prevent confusion from the other sport Americans played known as "football". Meanwhile, the rest of the world changed the other "football" sports to "rugby" (or any of a number of other names--the name really referred to hundreds of sports in the 1800s).
Since the UK invented football/soccer, and then codified its rules and named it "soccer", then the Americans can claim to be correct in calling it "soccer".
Here's a link to the origins of football/soccer. I can't find a reference as to when the name was assigned. You'll have to take my word on it (or do your own research). But the name definitely did not originate in the U.S.
--Be human.
If they were Spoofed then you would have seen an article on The Onion about Beijing and not an article about some news station in Beijing using a story on The Onion.
Visit the Arcade Restoration Workshop @ http://www.arcaderestoration.com
Since when does Greenland neighbor the US?