LAT falls for internet prank

Let’s face it. It’s easy to get fooled on the internet. Just today, for instance, I’ve sent $23,000 to a bank in Nigeria and thought I found my beshert on JDate.com until she turned out to be a man, and, to boot, a shiksa. (Still puzzling that one out.) Of course, I’m not a newspaper, so when I fall for an internet hoax, it isn’t news. Not so for the LAT, which recently printed a quote from a fake press release in a front-page story.