In a big-city newspaper exclusive, The Boston Globe today uncovered evidence that The Onion, a website that claims to be “America’s Finest News Source,� is in fact not a legitimate news source, but a website full of satire and fake news.
The newspaper discovered the shocking truth after scouring a recent Onion article. The article is headlined “Pretty Cute Watching Boston Residents Play Daily Game of Big City.� The giveaway that the article was satire was the use of the word “charming� in the same sentence with the “T,� the city’s trolley and subway system. Bostonians use many words to describe the “T� and it’s fair to say, the Globe has learned, that “charming� is not one of them.
Another obvious mistake was the Onion’s quoting of a Boston College student, who said “It’s really cool going to school in the city.� Any savvy Bostonian knows that describing Boston College as being “in the city� is obviously a falsehood.
If there was one clue, more than all the others, to the article being suspicious, it was a reference to people eating a big, fancy dinner at the top of the Prudential Center. When a reporter queried a person entering the Prudential Center and asked if there is a restaurant on top, the man laughed and said, “That’s wicked funny.�
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