Salon Revisits the Time an NYT Reporter Was 'Swung on the Flippity-Flop'
In hindsight, one of the few consolations is the fact that social media had not yet reared its Hydra-heads when the New York Times was fooled by a Seattle woman’s faux grunge glossary. Can you imagine the hashtags that would have sprung from the 1992 article being exposed the following year as having been victimized by a hoax?
If you’re too young to remember “grunge speak” or if the details have become a little hazy, click on over to author and musician Tom Maxwell’s fun piece on Salon, hitched to the 20th anniversary of Kurt Cobain‘s death.
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