I disagree, because I think the 1st of April has turned into a challenge towards our own perception of news. While it is most often easy to detect an April's fool, it is hard to rule out false positives. So many news stories are so strange, so meaningless or so predictable that they might qualify as a nonsense joke.

One day a year, we are asking ourselves for each and every article we read: Is this story too odd to be true?

I think that's a good thing.