(FORTUNE Magazine) – One would not wish to overstate the significance of the event, but this year your servant got it right. On April 1 he listened to National Public Radio's All Things Considered feature and guessed correctly which of the news items presented was a fake, i.e., an April fool joke. A year earlier he had done less well. Oh, sure, he knew it was hard to believe that adding compost to various dishes was the latest health-food rage. But other ATC features seem equally crazy, unless, of course, you buy into the program's stratospherically high-minded liberal mind-set. This year, for example, we came close to deciding that the fake news story was the one about farm workers re-creating some ''historic march'' of Cesar Chavez 28 years ago, and were especially suspicious of the detail that this year's marchers included a member of the comedy troupe Culture Clash. We finally decided that NPR's ideology would preclude any such inventions, as they might seem to trivialize the great work of Chavez. So we guessed, correctly, that the fake had to be the news story about teenagers all over America who were said to be responding affirmatively to a deal wherein you get your ears tattooed with logos for Pepsi and other companies, thereby attaining a lifetime 10% discount when you buy the products. An interesting question is whether the program had anything crazier on April 2.