Transcript: Interview: Robert Siegel discusses one of The Onion's satirical stories being picked up and broadcast as an actual news story

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Interview: Robert Siegel discusses one of The Onion's satirical stories being picked up and broadcast as an actual news story

Host: ROBERT SIEGEL Time: 9:00-10:00 PM

ROBERT SIEGEL, host:

When news is picked up by one newspaper from another newspaper, sometimes something gets lost in translation--for example: humor. We are now picking up on a story out of Beijing in today's Los Angeles Times. It seems that the Beijing Evening News ran a story from Washington on Monday that one of its writers had found on the Web. The story was that the US Congress is threatening to leave Washington, DC, unless a new Capitol is built. Now the LA Times traced this ...

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