Real Apology for Fake Reviews

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The publisher of a Connecticut newspaper received an apology from a senior Sony Pictures Entertainment executive Monday following Newsweek’s revelation that Sony created a fake film reviewer and attached the fake name and fake review excerpts to the publisher’s weekly title.

“He apologized,” said Tom Nash, publisher of The Ridgefield (Conn.) Press, of his telephone conversation with Jeff Blake, Sony’s president of worldwide marketing and distribution. Nash said Blake told him, ” ‘…all I can do is apologize.

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