Sharon Stone Gag Article Hits Front Page of Yahoo
We were definitely stunned this morning when we saw the following headline parked at the top of Yahoo’s front-page Entertainment news scroll:
Although the front page outlet-tag credits only Variety, the article is actually from the Hollywood trade’s satire partner Hollywood & Swine. The four-paragraph item was fed to Yahoo on Saturday and republished minus the framing disclaimer, fooling some readers, puzzling others and offending many more:
What’s even more embarrassing is that 17 hours and several thousand comments into the oversight, Yahoo has yet to banner-correct their version of the article.
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