The Onion Dupes Chinese State Media

Forget Channing Tatum: Korean dictator Kim Jong Un is the sexiest man of 2012, according to the Chinese Communist Party mouthpiece People’s Daily — and the satirical news site The Onion.

The website of the paper of record for China’s authoritarian ruling party regularly features positive reports on its even more authoritarian neighbor, North Korea, and its 28-year old leader Kim Jong Un. This time, however, People’s Daily editors may have been a bit too eager to please.

“With his devastatingly handsome, round face, his boyish charm, and his strong, sturdy frame, this Pyongyang-bred heartthrob is every woman’s dream come true,” the People’s Daily quoted from the fictitious report, going on to add this line, by the (also fictitious) Onion Style and Entertainment editor Marissa Blake-Zweibel: “He has that rare ability to somehow be completely adorable and completely macho at the same time.”

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Seems The Onion has struck again. God I love those sly mother f'uckers.

Edit: fixed the links, can't believe I did that

I love the Onion. This is awesome.

The Onion brings tears of laughter to my eyes.

your links are broken, got the url tag info backwards.

Gotta love propaganda.

I love satirical writing, it makes me so happy.

Never knew what the Onion was until today, but I guess this is joining my bookmarks :3

I don't know how recently was this updated, but:

For more coverage on The Onion's Sexiest Man Alive 2012, Kim Jong-Un, please visit our friends at the People's Daily in China, a proud Communist subsidiary of The Onion, Inc. Exemplary reportage, comrades.

[video=youtube;PWiT6VbVpjg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWiT6VbVpjg[/video]

I don't know how recently was this updated, but:

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... :f6:
China's that gullible?

... :f6:
China's that gullible?

To be fair, The Onion has very high standards and it can be hard to tell if they're being sarcastic unless you know the specific situation. Who knows, they might have been tasked to look for validation.

To be fair, The Onion has very high standards and it can be hard to tell if they're being sarcastic unless you know the specific situation. Who knows, they might have been tasked to look for validation.

True, but at the same time by just going to their website you can get a pretty good idea of the kind of news that they tend to report. If People's Daily did even the slightest bit of research (or good reporting) they would have easily realized that The Onion is satirical and would've saved themselves this massive facepalm.

True, but at the same time by just going to their website you can get a pretty good idea of the kind of news that they tend to report. If People's Daily did even the slightest bit of research (or good reporting) they would have easily realized that The Onion is satirical and would've saved themselves this massive facepalm.

True. On the other hand we wouldn't be laughing so much here if they had actually bothered to think of why a non-local newspaper would have such flattering praise.