Though it seems that some of our top outfits failed to do this very thing as they were drawn into the Chris Grayling speech about parts of Britain being like Wired.
Blogger Alex Hilton launched a bogus site claiming to be that of the Major of Baltimore who was not particularly happy about the Conservative spokesman's comments.
(For those already confused-Baltimore is the setting of the fictional drama)
Amongst those falling for the ruse,despite as I understand some rather gigantic clues were the Guardian and the BBC,though the content has now been taken down.
Saturday, August 29, 2009
First rule of journalism-check your sources.
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