FishbowlNY Inspires A NY Times Correction

Yesterday, FishbowlNY was the first New York media outlet to reveal how a Washington State television station got a college student to admit he pranked the New York Times.

Basically, the now-infamous viral video of a Rick Astley lookalike breakin onto the floor of a college basketball game to do a real-life Rickroll was entirely faked. The video uploaded to YouTube… well, it was cobbled together out of pre-existing footage — and fooled the Times (along with many of us).

This morning, the correction shown above was added to both the print edition of the Times and the paper’s website.