Parody site dupes the pros
Two nationally syndicated radio sports shows and The San Diego Union-Tribune got duped by a parody site. They ran stories about a fictional Jason Smith, a 5-foot-6, 128-pound honor student from Yorktown High School in "Muncey," (not Muncie) Ind., being signed by Purdue to play basketball. Problem is, they got the story from www.hoosiergazette.com, a site which carries this disclaimer on its home page: "Indiana's first source for inaccurate news and commentary since 2003."The Union-Tribune gets an extra black mark for not even citing the bogus Web site, but instead listed the credit on the story as "Union-Tribune News Services."
Here's what the paper's reader representative had to say about this.
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