D.C. Police Investigating The Onion for Fake Headline — (Not a Joke)
September 29, 2011 at 8:23 PM Leave a comment
The people who are “keeping us safe” in Washington, D.C. don’t get out much. (1) They apparently have never heard of The Onion. (2) They have absolutely no sense of humor. (3) They seem to have endless money to blow. And (4), they don’t have a whole lot to do:
The Twitter feed operated by the satirical national newspaper The Onion created some confusion in Washington on Thursday with a series of tweets proclaiming breaking news of a hostage situation inside the Capitol building.
A pair of tweets started the apparent commotion. “BREAKING: Witnesses reporting screams and gunfire heard inside Capitol building,” the first tweet read, followed by another: “BREAKING: Capitol building being evacuated. 12 children held hostage by group of armed congressmen #CongressHostage”
The tweets recalled a similar flurry last month, when the Twitter feed for NBC News issued several false reports of an apparent attack on New York two days before the 10th anniversary of 9/11. NBC said it was the victim of a hack, and that the FBI was investigating the incident.
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“It has come to our attention that recent Twitter feeds are reporting false information concerning current conditions at the U.S. Capitol. Conditions at the U.S. Capitol are currently normal,” U.S. Capitol police Sgt. Kimberly Schneider said in a press release. “There is no credibility to these stories or the twitter feeds. The U.S. Capitol Police are currently investigating the reporting.”
Are we in some sort of weird reality/time warp? The Capitol police are behaving more like the Onion than the Onion.
They look like Absolute Fools.
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