MSNBC Punk’d by The Onion

Posted on March 26, 2004 by lesjones

From the Tallahassee Democrat:

MSNBC got gigged last week when Deborah Norville reported a federal study that supposedly said 58 percent of all exercise done in the United States occurs in those TV infomercials for body-sculpting workout machines.

But the story was a spoof from The Onion, a satirical newspaper and online publication. The network said it inadvertently dropped the attribution in picking up the story, but c’mon – most of the exercise done in America is on TV? Shouldn’t somebody in the control room have said, “Hey, wait just a minute …”

That Deborah Norville is no Jane Pauley, is she? Via CableNewser.

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One Response to MSNBC Punk’d by The Onion

  1. SK Bubba says:
    March 26, 2004 at 9:06 am

    “Inadvertently dropped the attribution”? Is that the same as ripping off someone else’s work and representing it as your own? Serves them right. Karma is a bitch.