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To fall for this?
No wonder they're considering suing the newspaper - I'd be trying anything to detract from my humiliation at falling for such a rediculously obvious "prank".
Deary me :faf:
As an aside, when I read the headline, I thought it was in reference to Jordan aka Katie Price - now THAT wouldn't have surprised me one iota.
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Originally Posted by The Story So Far...
Maybe they thought they were about to be "Iraqicised" - bright lights, aircraft, alien invaders....
Moussa Barhoumeh, Al Ghad's managing editor, said the newspaper was simply having some good natured fun on April Fools' Day, and had apologised for any inconvenience caused.
"We meant to entertain, not scare people," he said.
Mr Barhoumeh did not say why Jafr was chosen as the butt of the joke, but the area is notorious for a nearby military base that sometimes hosts US troops for joint training exercises.
TO BE FAIR............
I'm no expert on Jordan and its media, but if your media is generally fairly serious, and you live in a non-liberal kind of place, then you would maybe be more inclined to believe even fantastical claims from those in authority. And, as has been pointed out, the region is no stranger to high-tech invasion. Just trying to be fair, likes......:greengrin
We should also remember that the BBC took in a lot of folk with their spaghetti harvest April Fools story in the late 1950's.
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Originally Posted by s.a.m
And I believe a certain Mr Orson Welles is alleged to have caught out a lot of people in the highly sophisticated and worldly-wise Good Ol' US Of A one Hallowe'en with a dramatisation of H G Wells' "War of the Worlds"? :cool2:
That was in 1939 during the war, most people that were in hysterics heard only the end or part of the broadcast about attackers and poison gas and assumed the nazis had attacked them. Not too ridiculous.Quote:
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No - it was October 30, 1938.
It was a very realistic rendition of the main theme of the book, true. But it's also true that a large number of the calls taken by the police in response to the broadcast did actually refer to Martians....
Although it was rather diffficult to contact these people for comment afterwards. :devil:
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Originally Posted by The Story So Far...
"Students didn't go to school, their parents were frightened and I almost evacuated the town's 13,000 residents," Mr Mleihan told the Associated Press.
:faf:
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Originally Posted by SlickShoes
The broadcast was set up in the style of a real news broadcast, right at the start of the programme, 'Breaking, Urgent News...' or something similar, then the show began.Quote:
Originally Posted by Doddie
I can sort of understand that given it was during the time when radio was gospel like and communications were not so far advanced.
Aye, but Martians? :rolleyes:
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Originally Posted by Doddie
Haha oh well, learn something new everyday!
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Aye but Americans?Quote:
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:wink:
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Well - says it all, really, doesn't it? :devil: