Baseless assertion
The leading news media in the world BBC made the joke by this news headline "One giant slip in Bangladesh news". It is because two popular newspapers of Bangladesh slipped their sense of journalism by publishing news claiming the first successful human mission on Moon was a drama. A website named www.theonion.com, which is a fake news website indeed, published the news that the Moon mission was fake. If anyone searches the Internet with the word 'onion', the result comes at the top of the page from the famous Wikipedia as "The Onion is an American fake news organization." But the dailies didn't check the truth behind the news and just copied it without further justification. Later they apologized for this. We say our newspapers and journalism are independent and responsible, but this sort of activities not only harms the reputation of the media but also the image of the whole country. Newspapers and journalists should be aware of these issues and must publish news with proper justification.
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