Feuer Frei!
04-13-13, 04:51 AM
:haha::haha:
A Chinese newspaper thought it was real and reprinted it.
According to The New Yorker’s Andy Borowitz, a potential North Korean nuclear-missile test (that even has the Pentagon on alert (http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/pentagon-north-korea-could-have-nuclear-missile/2013/04/11/72230dea-a2eb-11e2-82bc-511538ae90a4_story.html)) went awry this week thanks to an unspecified glitch (http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2013/04/north-korean-missile-test-delayed-by-windows-8.html) in Windows 8. As sources in Pyongyang were cursing Microsoft and threatening (nuclear?) war against the software company, a media outlet in China was picking up the piece—not realizing that The Borowitz Report is totally, hilariously fake.
Good stuff.
SOURCE (http://www.nationaljournal.com/tech/what-north-korea-windows-8-andy-borowitz-and-the-new-yorker-have-in-common-20130412)
A Chinese newspaper thought it was real and reprinted it.
According to The New Yorker’s Andy Borowitz, a potential North Korean nuclear-missile test (that even has the Pentagon on alert (http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/pentagon-north-korea-could-have-nuclear-missile/2013/04/11/72230dea-a2eb-11e2-82bc-511538ae90a4_story.html)) went awry this week thanks to an unspecified glitch (http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2013/04/north-korean-missile-test-delayed-by-windows-8.html) in Windows 8. As sources in Pyongyang were cursing Microsoft and threatening (nuclear?) war against the software company, a media outlet in China was picking up the piece—not realizing that The Borowitz Report is totally, hilariously fake.
Good stuff.
SOURCE (http://www.nationaljournal.com/tech/what-north-korea-windows-8-andy-borowitz-and-the-new-yorker-have-in-common-20130412)