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fromOpen Culture
12 hours ago

The 1957 "Spaghetti-Grows-on-Trees" Hoax: One of TV's First April Fools' Day Pranks

A 1957 BBC broadcast spoof convinced millions that spaghetti grew on trees in Switzerland, becoming a landmark televised April Fools' hoax.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

I have now been a journalist for 40 years. The forces ranged against my profession have never been so powerful | George Monbiot

Investigative journalism at the BBC once exposed powerful wrongdoing and effected change, but political pressure in 1987 led to its effective curtailment.
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