I’ve always wanted to be in the Onion
Tuesday, May 21st, 2002The Onion just posted “Factual Error Found on Internet” with the following passage…
Paul Boutin, senior editor of Wired, said the error is likely to have a profound effect on how the Internet is perceived.
“Will we ever fully trust the Web again?” Boutin asked. “We may well be witnessing the dawn of a new era of skepticism in which we no longer accept everything we read online at face value. But regardless of what the future holds, one thing is clear: The Internet’s status as the world’s definitive repository of incontrovertible fact has been jeopardized.”
I love it that the article contains an actual factual error from the Internet: I’ve been a freelance writer since last year. But I’ll take a mention in The Onion any way I can get it.
