High-tech ferrets and a French Shakespeare: British media continues April Fool’s tradition
By APThursday, April 1, 2010
British media continues April Fool’s tradition
LONDON — In today’s headlines: flavored newsprint, high-tech ferrets and the revelation that Britain’s greatest writer was — quelle horreur! — French.
The stories in Thursday’s press aren’t true, but examples of the British media continuing its tradition of April Fool’s Day spoofs.
Every April 1, media outlets engage in an unofficial yearly competition to dupe the naive and unsuspecting.
The Sun says it has developed the world’s first flavored newspaper page and is inviting readers to lick a square of newsprint “to reveal a hidden taste.”
The Daily Telegraph says an Internet service provider is to use tunneling ferrets to deliver broadband services to remote areas, and BBC radio’s “Today” program has an item claiming William Shakespeare’s mother was French.
