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A Dedication to the Really Real and Totally Not Fake:

A True Story

By Ru's News Top Writer

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Do yous have the blues because you're tired of fake news? We have the solution: Ru's News!

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Here at Ru's News we have a dedication to the really real and totally not fake. But it wasn't always like this.

Unfortunately, it's true. At one time we wrote about fake things. Things like Idaho and Australia, penguins and whales, and even the sky. That all changed when when the government of the United Isles of Pluto attacked. The Plutons were convinced that the writers at Ru's News had claimed that Martians were better singers than the Plutons.

While everyone knows that Martains are the better singers, the leaders of Ru's News could not convince the Plutons of anything. Not after they found out that the top writer for Ru's News agreed that the Plutons' voices sound like popcorn monsters scraping a dying cat's nails on a chalkboard next to a microphone connected to the universe's most powerful amplifier. The leaders of Ru's News tried to convince them anyway. They were very good at convincing people to believe stuff after all. First, they tried to convince the Plutons that they would never write anything like that. It was true after all; Ru's News only wrote fake news. The irritated Plutons didn't believe a word. Next, they tried to convince

the Plutons that they only wrote fake things so therefore none of their readers should believe what they wrote. The impatient Plutons started dismantling the the really old printing press piece by piece. Then the Ru's News' top writer pitched in. She tried to convince the Plutons that they really did have terrible singing voices. This only made the Plutons angrier and they started dismantling the ancient printing press even faster than they had been. Finally, the smartest people at Ru's News, the editors, put their heads together and thought. Together they realized the reason that they had been unsuccessful at convincing the Plutons that there was no reason for them to be there. They had been telling the truth. They were only good at convincing people to believe in fake things. So they began weaving a fantastic tale. The Martians had broken into Ru's News and forced the leaders to think that the Martians were better singers. They forced the top writer to write that awful phrase. They forced the editors to leave that accursed sentence alone. Then they hid thirteen listening devices and two cameras in the room so that they couldn't take it back. They found and destroyed the cameras right away. Twelve of the listening devices soon followed. However, it wasn't until just now that they had found the last one. That was why the top writer had insulted their angelic musical voices. The Plutons appreciated the honesty and apologized to the Ru's News after reassembling the printing press. They also said they had to get home right away and apologized again for the inconvenience. 

The moment the Plutons left, everyone in the room burst into laughter, but they never forgot that if they had just been practicing convincing people of the truth it would have been much easier to get the Plutons to leave. So they vowed never to write lies again, just in case the Plutons ever came back.

That's how you know you can trust us to always tell the truth, no matter how fun it is to write fiction.

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