The shocking truth behind the 1969 Apollo 11 Moon Landing was revealed on The Onion website on 31 August, in an article that detailed how the ‘first man on the moon’ announced that he had become convinced that it had all been a hoax.Said the article:
'According to Armstrong, he was forced to reconsider every single detail of the monumental journey after watching a few persuasive YouTube videos, and reading several blog posts on the conspiracy theorist Ralph Coleman’s website, OmissionControl.org.
“It took only a few hastily written paragraphs published by this passionate denier of mankind’s so-called ‘greatest technological achievement for me to realize I was living a lie,” said a visibly shaken Armstrong…'
Of course, the Onion is a satirical site, which makes light of the world’s madness by putting out gently mocking stories designed to poke fun at silly positions. So no, Neil Armstrong never actually said any of that. Kinda obvious, really.
But two Bangladeshi papers didn’t get the joke. Both the Daily Manab Zamin and New Nation reported the story as fact last week. A few days later, after being thoroughly humiliated online, they apologized for their faulty reporting.
Their defense?
"We thought it was true so we printed it without checking," DMZ associate editor Hasanuzzuman Khan told the AFP news agency. "We didn't know the Onion was not a real news site."
Hey guys, we're not laughing with you...
Source: BBC News
