Ian Hislop's Fake News: a True History

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 Offwidth 08 Oct 2019

A history with modern consequences and serious lessons, but still great fun.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00095hv

 kwoods 08 Oct 2019
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Started watching (and might finish too), but unimpressive lazy of him to implicate the Apollo missions as being in the same league as tabloid-driven fake news. (c. 4 mins) 

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OP Offwidth 08 Oct 2019
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He is a satirist and said about Private Eye that some content complainants clearly can't tell the difference between an expose and a joke.

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 kwoods 08 Oct 2019
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Journalism's capacity for technology and engineering is famously low, must be his style though - I know him for HIGNFY but never picked up a copy of Private Eye.

 Tringa 09 Oct 2019
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Thought it was delivered well and lightheartedly but with an important message.

Dave

 freeflyer 09 Oct 2019

>> unimpressive lazy of him to implicate the Apollo missions ...

As posted above, I think this may have been a joke with the intended butt being believers in conspiracy theories

He annoys me on HIGNFY so I don't watch it, but he's a good and entertaining historian / documentary producer imho, and his previous efforts have also been worth watching.

Haven't bought Private Eye since they stopped running the Cloggies.

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 squarepeg 10 Oct 2019
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Oh balls, missed it!


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