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This year's April Fool's Day spoof from the BBC, a video on flying penguins, still looks serious if you read the Mar. 31 post on the BBC Internet blog. |
It seems April Fool's Day stories are popular with readers. Well, I didn't have time to check across the world, but on April 1 I noticed several "best-of" articles at the top of the "most read" lists across the Danish media sites. (Here's the
Telegraph's roundup of U.K. spoof news from April 1.)
By now we have all laughed about -- and forgotten -- most of those stories. The articles are no longer on cover pages, and soon they will be replaced on the "most read" lists by articles about war and real estate prices.
But, I was just wondering... did everyone remember to clean up their archives?
April Fool's Day articles are usually not mean, but they are meant to deceive. I noticed that most of the Danish articles I checked have been updated with very visible "April Fools" introductions, to prevent misunderstandings in the years to come.
