Don’t believe everything you read…

…even if it is from a “legitimate news source”. There was a time when media companies actually researched current events and WROTE news stories. It seems like these days the closest the average media company comes to reporting news is repackaging and regurgitating some agency’s or company’s press release. Here is all the evidence you will ever need of the pathetic state of news in popular media.

Australia's The Age newspaper reported that several legitimate news sites picked up a hoax press release sating that representatives of the land of Narnia (the fictional realm from C.S. Lewis' SCIFI fantasy book series The Chronicles of Narnia, which was recently adapted for the big screen as the hugely popular movie The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe) had walked out of the recent World Trade Organization's talks in Hong Kong.

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.

The agencies who picked up the hoax press release and reported it as news have since removed the reports, The Age reported.

MrSCIFI – SCIFI news, reviews, and spoilers. scifi, scifi channel, battlestar galactica, abc lost, the 4400, scifi tv, scifi movies, sci fi, sci-fi, science fiction
Blog-Back!
Have something to add? Click on the comments link below to tell the SCIFI community what you think!