Court TV slammed for fake kidnapping site

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CourtTV earned some grudging admiration last summer when it put up bogus billboards from a wife apparently livid about her husband’s cheating ways. It’s getting nothing but nauseated reactions to its latest marketing stunt: a Web site called SaveMyHusband.com, which features video of a wife distraught over the apparent kidnapping of her husband—a video that is now clearly labeled as a “dramatization,” with the Court TV logo, but which went up at first with little indication that it was a marketing ploy.

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