bizarre UFO shenanigans in the daily star

so i guess nothing would surprise anyone when it comes to the tabloids but my dad
brought this one to my attention last week

for 4 days in a row the star had an article about some viral UFO video on the
or internet or some sh1t like this. they printed the same picture every day
which was supposed to be a still from the video and told people to check it out online.

i had a gander and it was such an ovious fake i had to wonder what the hell
they were playing at. why draw attention to such a crappy internet video at all, let
alone do it more than once?

i guessed it might be part of some advertising campaign but the article didn't
say 'this is an advertisement' or whatever so that seemed to be ruled out.
but today my dad tells me it was an ad all along (for a choccy bar) and they
finally put the 'this is an ad' disclaimer on the thing after revealing it was
actually just a promotion.

this type of lark seems very sleazy to me. i'm sure many people looked at that
and never knew they were being 'advertised at' thinking it was some kind
of genuine news story.

but who is really surprised anyway? half the stories in the tabloids aren't real
news stories but are paid for promotions or publicity stunts of one kind or
another so it's all b0llix news anyway. you may as well read the beano!

any thoughts? down with this sort of thing?