Thursday, November 29, 2012

Image, the Imaginary, and Postmodernity's Mediascapes: The case of The Onion

BEIJING. The Chinese Communist Party may want to brush up on U.S. media.

The People's Daily, the party's official organ, ran a large feature on its website Tuesday on young North Korean leader Kim Jong Un being named The Onion's "Sexiest Man Alive."

The only glitch was that The People's Daily didn't seem to realize The Onion is a satirical publication...

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~ dc

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