Talk about one smart student!!
I definitely have to take a page(or quote) from this kid’s book.
An Irish student pulled off a glorious prank on the mass-media involving a fake quote, Wikipedia.org, and the death of a well known musician.
22 year old Shane Fitzgerald took the passing of a popular French composer(Maurice Jarre) as the perfect opportunity to test out whether or not major news outlets check their fact’s. The results are less than shocking…to me at least.
It turns out that many newspapers around the world blindly included the faux quote in their obituary columns, but only one news outlet (The Guardian of Britain) has come forward since Fitzgerald disclosed the truth behind the mysterious quotation.
“…Fitzgerald told several media outlets they’d swallowed his baloney whole.” (great/random quote from article)
Read the full story HERE
Kind of makes you think twice before believing what’s in print!
-Ego