Adding to a growing list of failures by mainstream (and non-comedic) news reporting establishments, a Bangladeshi paper reported that Neil Armstrong had finally admitted to the moon landings being faked. Except they didn’t quite get round to checking their sources, as they found out to everyone else’s derisive laughter.

The best bit is that a second paper then reported on the same story. They didn’t get the layers of satire either, even when the original Onion article said Armstrong’s beliefs had been “forced to reconsider every single detail of the monumental journey after watching a few persuasive YouTube videos and reading several blog posts” by a conspiracy theorist. I mean… come on!

It amazes me that a (sort of) respected journalistic endeavour will not actually bother to check out the source they are reporting as gospel truth, or even check out the other stories on the site in question. I mean please, the usual Onion front page looks about as serious as kitten playing with a ball of wool.