123tim
11-01-2011, 05:54 AM
Are we hopelessly lost?
It's bad enough that regular citizens wouldn't doubt this report, but I can't believe that employees of CPI would actually ask "When did we do a study?" after reading this fake article.
It's almost like I'm reading an Onion article about an Onion article.
Here we go again.
A fake story published by The Onion is causing some real confusion for a California town and the institute that the humor paper satirized.
The Onion published a brief, one paragraph story on October 26 with the headline, "Study Finds Every Style of Parenting Produces Disturbed, Miserable Adults":
SANTA ROSA, CA—A study released by the California Parenting Institute Tuesday shows that every style of parenting inevitably causes children to grow into profoundly unhappy adults. "Our research suggests that while overprotective parenting ultimately produces adults unprepared to contend with life's difficulties, highly permissive parenting leads to feelings of bitterness and isolation throughout adulthood," lead researcher Daniel Porter said. "And, interestingly, we found that anything between those two extremes is equally damaging, always resulting in an adult who suffers from some debilitating combination of unpreparedness and isolation. Despite great variance in parenting styles across populations, the end product is always the same: a profoundly flawed and joyless human being." The study did find, however, that adults often achieve temporary happiness when they have children of their own to perpetuate the cycle of human misery. (continued.)
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/cutline/fake-onion-story-causes-real-confusion-california-town-145806545.html
It's bad enough that regular citizens wouldn't doubt this report, but I can't believe that employees of CPI would actually ask "When did we do a study?" after reading this fake article.
It's almost like I'm reading an Onion article about an Onion article.
Here we go again.
A fake story published by The Onion is causing some real confusion for a California town and the institute that the humor paper satirized.
The Onion published a brief, one paragraph story on October 26 with the headline, "Study Finds Every Style of Parenting Produces Disturbed, Miserable Adults":
SANTA ROSA, CA—A study released by the California Parenting Institute Tuesday shows that every style of parenting inevitably causes children to grow into profoundly unhappy adults. "Our research suggests that while overprotective parenting ultimately produces adults unprepared to contend with life's difficulties, highly permissive parenting leads to feelings of bitterness and isolation throughout adulthood," lead researcher Daniel Porter said. "And, interestingly, we found that anything between those two extremes is equally damaging, always resulting in an adult who suffers from some debilitating combination of unpreparedness and isolation. Despite great variance in parenting styles across populations, the end product is always the same: a profoundly flawed and joyless human being." The study did find, however, that adults often achieve temporary happiness when they have children of their own to perpetuate the cycle of human misery. (continued.)
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/cutline/fake-onion-story-causes-real-confusion-california-town-145806545.html