Fake Narnia News Dupes Sites
Several legitimate news sites picked up a hoax press release saying that representatives of the fictional land of Narnia had walked out of the recent World Trade Organization’s talks in Hong Kong, The Age newspaper reported.
The news release from “the independent state of Narnia” was picked up by the financial news agency AFX and found its way onto top business news Web sites, including Forbes.com.
The news release said that Narnia had walked out of the World Trade Organization talks in Hong Kong because it was fed up with being bullied by the United States and Europe. Narnia, of course, is the fictional realm from C.S. Lewis’ fantasy book series The Chronicles of Narnia, which was recently adapted into the movie The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
The news release quoted Narnia spokeswoman Susan Aslan; Aslan is the name of the Christ-like lion featured in the books.
The agencies who picked up the phony news have since removed the reports, The Age reported.
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Jan 3, 2006 at 9:21 am
people are so stupid indeed. You can really tell who cared about their job enough to fact check.
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