According to SatireWire.com, "The profusion of international news available on the Internet has made it increasingly difficult for the average American to ignore the rest of the world, a trend researchers say threatens Americans' long, proud history of disregarding anything not about them." SatireWire has some other funny news parodies too, such as "Foot-and-mouth Believed to Be First Virus Unable to Spread Through Microsoft Outlook" and "Mad Cows Use Cell Phones."

"It was 2:05 a.m. when an ambulance brought Mr. Jacobs and his daughter to Sarasota Memorial Hospital's emergency room," stated a news release from Sarasota Memorial Hospital. "Mr. Jacobs was complaining of difficulty breathing. He was 65 years old, overweight and on medication for high blood pressure.

Steven C. Parrish, who is senior VP/corporate affairs at Philip Morris Cos., has apologized for a company-funded report calling cost savings from smokers' early demise one of the "positive effects" of cigarette consumption. According to O'Dwyer's PR, Parrish said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal that it was a "terrible mistake" as well as wrong. "To say it's totally inappropriate is an understatement," Parrish said.