Poke News: Dear Poke Readers – excuse us while we take a rare break from our usual rubbish to tell you about what happened over the other side of the Channel this week.
France lost it’s triple ‘eh?’ rating on Wednesday when one of our old Poke stories from August 2011 about a fictitious BBC sign interpreter, Leslie Grange, getting sacked for embellishing the news, resurfaced on the Gallic news radar as a real story.
Not only several news websites, but esteemed organs such as Le Parisien and L’Express ran the story of how the interpreter had been telling deaf viewers that Rebekah Brooks had raped a monkey and that radioactive zombies had been spotted near the Fukushima disaster site.
The story then graduated to radio, broadcast again as true on the two biggest news stations in France, RTL (“The website The Poke was the first to break this news yesterday in England”)- listen here at 1min 53 – and France Info (“Leslie Grange is very famous in Great Britain”) – listen here at 11mins 40 – before finally making it onto the telly, discussed on ‘La Nouvelle Edition’ news show on Canal + (“A mini-scandal on the other side of the atlantic”).
As soon as they realised their mistake, most sites either pulled the story or turned it into a ‘fake or real?’ piece.
Happily however they couldn’t do that to the broadcast shows. See below for wednesday’s Canal + news item, then holding their hands up to the mistake yesterday – zut alors!
(Apologies for subtitles errors etc – we were in a rush!)
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*Stands up and applauds*
Meanwhile, somewhere in Europe, the flesh-eating undead realise they have gotten away with it, and Rebekah Brooks continues her reign of bestial tyranny.
I can’t speak French so I will have to take your word that the subtitles are correct…
At least they held their hands up and admitted they fell for a hoax. Can’t imagine the UK press, especially the tabloid lot doing that.
haha u have made my year, no decade, no century… we love u the poke, and this is exactly why…. typical french haters :p
This article has to be true, that the French DID fall for it.. It wouldn’t make sense to make a fake article about publicity about a fake article…
Would it…?
Bravo, Bravo, Bravo…
Quelle bonne blague !
Digne des Monty Pithon et le “ministry of silly walks”.
Encore s’il vous plait !
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Glasgow’s Radio Clyde news are reporting this today as fact! They have just facebooked about it a wee while ago. http://www.facebook.com/clyde1.