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‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens (www.theonion.com)
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[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 38 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They just change the date, city, number of victims, and then change the fake person's name for the quote. The rest stays exactly the same.

[–] Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yes, that's how all news sites do it now

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 points 11 months ago

But in this case it's part of the point of the repeating article that the article is nearly identical every time