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* ''The Ottawa Citizen'' described [[U2]] as "a Brit band". Apparently, the editor of that paper forgot that since 1922, Ireland is ''no longer part of the United Kingdom''.

** A recurring problem with Irish musicians (and indeed other celebrities). MTV has referred to Westlife as British (you would think they at least should know better).

* "The Prince of Denmark's March" by Jeremiah Clarke is incessantly called "Purcell's Trumpet Voluntary". (The prince referred to is not Hamlet, but Queen Anne's husband.)

** It cites a [[The Bible|Scripture verse]] claiming that miniskirts are sinful, despite the fact that Swift has never been seen wearing one.

** It says that [[Miley Cyrus]] is primarily a [[Country Music]]ian (again, wrong).

** Indeed, [[Jesus Is Savior|that website]] has become rather infamous on various message boards for how insane and inaccurate it is. Many of its other articles contain other glaring inaccuracies, over-analyzing minor things, extreme fundamentalism (of the "women's pants are evil!" variety) and Bible-thumping condemnations of almost everything under the sun. There have been some mutterings that the site is actually a [[Stealth Parody]] because [[Poe's Law|it's so unbelievable]]. Because there are so many examples of this trope on that site, we'll leave it at this blanket description instead of listing every little thing.

* CNN once had a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeEIteQmpHE brief report] on the video of "Bad Apple!!" - a song with a fairly [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/bad-apple convoluted history]. To those who know the real story (or even a basic outline), it seems CNN gathered all of its facts from simply watching the video shown. As the comments show, it rather enraged Touhou fans.

* Some sources have claimed that Navin Harris sang backing vocals on Olivia Newton-John's songs "Let Me Be There" and "If You Love Me (Let Me Know)". This "fact" stemmed from a piece of vandalism on [[Wikipedia]] that went unnoticed for two years. Mike Sammes was the actual backing vocalist.

 

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