New York Times Gets Punked
The New York Times published a fake letter attributed to the mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoe, in which the author criticized “Caroline Kennedy’s Senate bid as ‘appalling’ and ‘not very democratic’”.
So much for the superiority of mainstream media’s myriad levels of editors and filtering mechanisms.
But most striking of all is that a bastion of the cultural elite such as the NYT would fall for such a simple hoax. It’s almost as if the paper were staffed by the sort of people their elite peers derisevely think of as parochial, unsophisticated, small-town types.
