"Ratings Low For NPR Morning Zoo Crew"

"'For some reason, radio listeners have not responded to the zany antics of NPR Zookeepers Alex Chadwick, Jean Cochran and Bob Edwards, whose outrageous pranks have included phoning Harper's editor Lewis Lapham at 6 a.m. and telling him that there's a new collection of Nicholson Baker short stories due out in the fall,' NPR programming director James Orbach said."

From The Onion, 1998.