In the light of yesterday's embarrassed announcement by two leading newspapers in Bangladesh that they ran a news story about faked moon landings without realising that their sole source for the story, www.theonion.com, was a world-renowned satirical website that has been making up comedy news-based stories for 13 years, the Nev Filter has conducted an urgent review of its own journalistic procedures.
It is with considerable shame that I now confess to having been less than rigorous in my own daily reporting of the newsworthy events.
Some of the Nev Filter's ground-breaking reports, it now transpires, were based on nothing more substantial than an item posted on my Yahoo homepage from the notorious Sky News comedy website, a notorious source of fiction and fantasy run by James Murdoch, a well-known comedian.
Such rudimentary attempts at corroboration as were occasionally essayed by the writer involved nothing more than a quick scan through the corresponding page from BBC News - a discredited organisation of jokers which is utterly compromised by its total control by the UK Ministry of Propaganda, according to an unimpeachable source (J. Murdoch).
The Nev Filter can only apologise profusely to the readers it so shamefully misled, and from now on will only publish 100%-accurate news stories corroborated by reliable sources which are owned by such reputable paragons of truth as the Daily Mail & General Trust, Express Newspapers and Mr Murdoch's utterly trustworthy News Corporation.
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