[Updated] Iranian news agency Fars runs Onion poll as real news
* Iran’s Fars news agency doesn’t know Onion’s poll is a joke? (hypervocal.com)
* Related: MSNBC show apologizes for confusing satire with truth (mediabistro.com)
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UPDATE: Fars has pulled its story, but there’s Twitter evidence of it.
Gallup Poll: Rural Whites Prefer Ahmadinejad to Obama bit.ly/Q7PpNR
— Fars News Agency (@FNA_Iran) September 28, 2012
UPDATE II: St. Petersburg comedian Kent Roberts tweeted four days ago that this was his first Onion headline since 2004.
