Potato farmers held a noisy protest outside Parliament today to get the term "couch potato" removed from the Oxford English dictionary, claiming it harms the vegetable's image.
As soon as I read this, I went straight to the bottom of the page to see if there was somewhere it said, "This story was a spoof; we just wanted to see if you were paying attention"; and couldn't find any such statement.

I find that I feel 50% "Hooray! People are really interested in words in a dictionary", and 50% "Oh, come on--a noisy protest???"

I didn't see any news stories about potato farmers here protesting the term. And why would anybody assign a human name to a potato type, anyway? "I'm going to eat some Linda": .