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April Fools Day: Are we too suspicious of a prank story nowadays?
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68 years ago today, millions tuned into a BBC Panorama report about a Swiss family harvesting spaghetti from trees.
It was, of course, an April Fool's Day joke.
Every year on 1 April , newspapers would publish outlandish stories with zero or very little basis in fact.
Rise of social media has ushered in a "different kind of relationship" between readers and press, say experts.
The Spaghetti Harvest story landed with such a splash because of the limited news brand choice in those days , says Richard Thomas , media professor at Swansea University .
The days when the country's most trusted broadcaster and news source can playfully tease its audience on such a scale that we are remembering it almost 70 years later .
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