You Phools!

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News Flash: Still gullible after all these years

The all-time best news media April Fools Day spoof has got to be this from the staid BBC in 1957, reporting on a bumper spaghetti tree crop in the Alps:

“The BBC has received a mixed reaction to a spoof documentary broadcast this evening about spaghetti crops in Switzerland.

“The hoax Panorama programme, narrated by distinguished broadcaster Richard Dimbleby, featured a family from Ticino in Switzerland carrying out their annual spaghetti harvest.

“It showed women carefully plucking strands of spaghetti from a tree and laying them in the sun to dry.

“But some viewers failed to see the funny side of the broadcast and criticised the BBC for airing the item on what is supposed to be a serious factual programme.

“Others, however, were so intrigued they wanted to find out where they could purchase their very own spaghetti bush.

“Spaghetti is not a widely-eaten food in the UK and is considered by many as an exotic delicacy.”

—The BBC online, “1957: BBC fools the nation,”
April 1, 2012 (and 1957) Story and priceless 1957 video clip

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• HELP WANTED: New Faculty for Fall 2012! The JCOM Department at Utah State is taking applications for a multimedia instructor, teaching our new required multimedia class and assisting with the Aggie TV newscast classes. For full position description, click here.



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• DEADLINE EXTENDED to APRIL 9: JCOM Scholarships for 2012-13.

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