Chalk one up to the San Antonio Zoo. Both local and national news outlets got taken in by its April Fool’s Day joke.
Unlike some publications we know, local TV outlet KSAT and national political site The Hill were briefly bamboozled by the zoo’s fake press release, which announced that its three Asian elephants had taken a jaunt in Brackenridge Park and cooled off in the San Antonio River.
“We admit we fell for it for a few minutes, until President & CEO of San Antonio Zoo Tim Morrow reached out and clarified, saying the zoo has a history of April Fool’s jokes,” KSAT’s article now reads.
Hey, happens to the best of us sometimes.
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This article appears in Mar 25 – Apr 7, 2020.
