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Newspaper vocabulary. How to read Newspaper articles. Reading and watching the News. How to write News report articles. The Passive Voice. Building complex sentences. I am Charlie. Comedy. April Fool's Day Quiz. April Fool's Day Quiz Every April Fool's Day the ritual is the same.
Outrageously false stories — issued by a variety of sources such as corporations, non-profit organizations, journalists, and politicians — appear in the media. The challenge for all of us is to sort out the April Foolery from the weird stuff that's actually true. And every year this gets harder as reality itself becomes more surreal, blurring the line between Foolery and Fact. Listed below are sixteen claims that have been made in the media.