LAT: Oops, Our Bad

The LA Times has found itself in the cross hairs…has been shot down…their Tupac story is chock full of holes…

Too soon?

Anyway they did a Dan Rather and ran a story based on information gained from phony documents:

“We published this story with the sincere belief that the documents were genuine, but our good intentions are beside the point,” Stanton said in a statement.

There first clue should have been that the documents in question were written by Peggy Seltzer and signed by L Ron Hubbard.

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