Fooled by the media.(April Fool's Day)

From: Contemporary Review | Date: April 1, 1999| Author: Humphrys, Geoffrey | Copyright information

BBC's TV current affairs program 'Panorama' started mass media's practice of pulling practical jokes on April Fools Day in 1957. On that day, TV viewers watched Richard Dimbleby walk between trees decorated with spaghetti which were being gathered into baskets. The setting was a small Swiss village and the camera crew persuaded the villagers to climb ladders and gather the 'harvest.' The BBC was later flooded with calls from viewers who wanted to know where they could see a spaghetti harvest ...

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