I get home from work, flick on the telly and see a very interesting on ABC's Mediawatch. A new show fooled some of the biggest media companies in the country with a false scientific report on the gullibility of various cities in Australia. This, as the usual reporting goes, was snapped up by the likes of "The Age online", ABC Radio and even Ch10's new fo-news program "7pm Project" thus proving how you shouldn't believe everything you read in the media. Funny to think that despite the presence of a Seinfeld gag (it would have been funnier if they had credited 'Art Vanderlay'), a statement that the report was false, and the fact that the publishing company simply didn't exist, they still missed it. As Derryn Hinch would proclaim....."Shame..."
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