Aliens on the Cover of USA Today

 

Last weekend's edition of USA Today had the above front page. Some subscribers reading that headline must have been horrified! Did you receive from any other outlet this news about "Hybrid babies born across the US"? 

Not likely. Because it wasn't 'news' at all. Shown above is in fact not the front page of USA Today but rather the front page of a 4-page Special Advertising Section that enveloped the 'actual' newspaper. 

So what was it all about? The entire section was an advertisement for the new Netflix series based on the DC Comic known as Sweet Tooth. I think it's possible that some people believed what the front page of that newspaper was telling them just like listeners to 1939's radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds believed that earth was being invaded from another planet. Right?