Before
fake news
, citizen journalism and
El Mundo Today
ruined the April Fools in the press, today was the traditional lie day.
You know it and the editor intuits it
: all this tradition of telling innocents to readers is already a sister-in-law, a sister-in-law, a matter of the brother-in-law.
Newspapers change at the same time as journalists, giving rise to a paradox: the more adherence to political postulates represented by professionals located on one side and the other of the ideological spectrum, the
more sybaritic the relationship of the press with the innocent has become.
Oh.
The innocents seemed to seal the relationship with the reader, tied up trust, the joke stopped, for a day, compliance with the code of ethics.
The April Fool's Day was a Christmas toast between the newspaper writer and the newsreader who has been lost in this age of intense party-seekers.
"It has been relegated to the online and sports press, but for more than a century, every December 28, Spanish newspapers have squeezed their ingenuity to joke with readers.
Sometimes, with authentic displays of ingenuity. Sometimes, with consequences unpredictable
", explains Open Literature, the publishing house that publishes
Cibeles is sold
, the first "anthology of the journalistic innocents published in the Spanish press".
The Saudi Embassy called a newspaper office "to confirm the news that the price of a barrel of oil would fall from $24 to $1.62."
A made-up diplomat announced in 1969 that Spain and the USSR would "exchange ambassadors."
At the dawn of the joke, "the fine imposed in 1894 on
Le Figaro
for publishing the death of a politician in exile or on
La Nación
for giving the exclusive report on Azaña's withdrawal" was published.
Chances comparable to the elbow of your uncle who smokes Ducados when he surprises you writing on WhatsApp.
stolen congressional lions
José Manuel Burgueño is the author.
"It is a wide selection of the best jokes in the newspapers, classified and contextualized, also mentioning those that are made outside of Spain"
.
On December 28, one of the lions of Congress and the statue of Carlos III of Puerta del Sol were stolen, it was forbidden to wear a beard in Barcelona or for cars in Madrid to turn left as a star measure to fix traffic.
Almost no one is so innocent anymore: "The collapse of the Mosque of Córdoba was announced, a whale was sighted in the Casa de Campo, La Cibeles was sold to Mexico, a pool of 14 was won by Ingrid Bergman, the Christmas Fat Minister of Finance
and any fine would be forgiven for cars whose registration ended up the same as the prize in the El Niño raffle".
The jokes bit into the topics.
An essay could come out of all the commotion caused by the supposed translation of the Kamasutra into Basque.
"The avalanche of requests that it generated meant that a year later that translation was really presented"
.
It was 1986. "Others have ended up becoming a reality. Impossible signings, such as Laudrup or Ronaldo for Real Madrid. The breakup of the Beatles. Or the arrival on the Moon."
Diario 16
announced in 1976 the television premiere of
El último tango en París
.
"In the recently released democracy it was unthinkable."
Cibeles for sale gathers "half a thousand" of innocents.
"The tradition goes back to the Middle Ages. The custom of playing pranks on the neighbor settled in the press."
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