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Story Linking Diddy to Tupac Shooting a Hoax

Mar 26, 2008 2:13 PM CDT

Story Linking Diddy to Tupac Shooting a Hoax

'FBI reports' lead back to longtime con man, says Smoking Gun

(Newser) - The Los Angeles Times was duped into reporting that associates of Sean “Diddy” Combs were involved in the 1994 shooting of rapper Tupac Shakur, the Smoking Gun reports. The paper based last week's story on FBI reports fabricated by a long-time con man who has long sought to insinuate...

Paparazzi Punk Plan Doesn't Scare Mags

Mar 26, 2008 1:12 PM CDT

Paparazzi Punk Plan Doesn't Scare Mags

Editors rip Kutcher's turn-the-tables show as 'conceited celebrity'

(Newser) - Avril Lavigne with a baby bump. Paris Hilton out with a monk. Ashton Kutcher's plans to punk gossip rags by teaming up with celebrity friends to serve fake news stories doesn't have many editors shaking in their boots, the New York Daily News reports. “A fake belly doesn’t...

No Hoax Here: Prankster's Bio One to Watch

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Mar 5, 2008 3:52 PM CST

No Hoax Here: Prankster's Bio One to Watch

Abel Raises Cain chronicles 'America's greatest living hoaxer'

(Newser) - Satirist Alan Abel has spent decades laughing at Americans who fell for hoaxes such as his "euthanasia cruises" and a school for training beggars. Abel Raises Cain, a documentary made by his daughter now out on DVD, is a "hysterical look at a gifted comic," even if...

China: Sorry for This Fake Photo

Feb 22, 2008 5:12 PM CST

China: Sorry for This Fake Photo

State news agency apologizes for doctored image of antelopes near train

(Newser) - China’s state-run news service has apologized for running—and honoring—a doctored photo that aided the government’s argument about a new train line's environmental impact. The 2006 image showed antelopes frolicking under Tibetan tracks, purportedly demonstrating that the beloved beasts weren’t affected by them. It worked, until...

Boardroom Hoax Has Street Abuzz

Feb 16, 2008 7:47 AM CST

Boardroom Hoax Has Street Abuzz

Analyst imposter gets access to top execs and has everyone baffled

(Newser) - Joe Herrick asks wonk-like questions about the impact of lean Six Sigma management techniques, is unfailingly polite and talks the talk of quarterly corporate conference earnings calls, fitting in nicely with the other securities analysts asking questions of the company’s head honchos. The problem is, reports the Wall Street ...

Princeton Student Faked Own Beating

Dec 18, 2007 4:07 AM CST

Princeton Student Faked Own Beating

Sent death threats to himself and other campus conservatives

(Newser) - A Princeton student who claimed his views on morality and membership in a conservative organization triggered death threats against him and a beating has confessed that the threats and attack were self-delivered, the Daily Princetonian reports. Four others on campus, including a prominent conservative professor, were also threatened as part...

Sham Study Tricks Climate Skeptics

Nov 12, 2007 7:45 PM CST

Sham Study Tricks Climate Skeptics

Warming blamed on bacteria; pundits trumpeted the news

(Newser) - Turns out undersea bacteria don’t cause global warming after all. But they were on trial for 70 minutes last week after a British prof's email chain linked to a sham study. Climate skeptics and conservatives—Rush Limbaugh included—trumpeted the study until a University of Colorado prof smelled something...

Strip-search Costs McD's $6.1M

Oct 6, 2007 10:03 AM CDT

Strip-search Costs McD's $6.1M

Jurors say franchise negligent in hoax

(Newser) - A Kentucky jury has ordered McDonald's to pay $6.1 million to settle the case of an employee who was strip-searched in the fast-food restaurant as part of a hoax. Jurors gave Louise Ogborn, 18 at the time, hefty punitive damages because McDonald's didn't seem all that concerned about warning...