Real news met satire on Wednesday when the Boston Globe playfully needled The Onion.
The light-hearted quarrel began when The Onion, which jokingly bills itself as “America’s Finest News Source,” ran a story under the headline “Pretty Cute Watching Boston Residents Play Daily Game Of ‘Big City.'” As always, the satirical newspaper’s story parodied hard news prose:
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