The New York TIMES is now the latest of many to fall for a spoof of real news as presented by the always hilarious ONION.. The New York Times’ April 17 mini-retrospective on the “original teen-girl tabloid,” Tiger Beat, included a sampling of the magazine’s covers throughout the years..
The TIMES peeled the onion back though and issued this statement:
A series of pictures last Sunday of covers of the magazine Tiger Beat, with an article about how the original teen-girl tabloid has remained virtually unchanged since its inception in 1965, erroneously included a parody cover, produced by the satiric newspaper The Onion, that featured a picture of President Obama
The Old Gray Lady just ain't what she used to be
