Richard Rushfield Maps the Road to Balloon Boy

Richard Rushfield formerly of LAT, formerly of Gawker, penned a piece about his time in a team of major metropolitan journalists trying to figure out the deal with LonelyGirl15.

Rushfield writes:

In the end, working with a team of heroic researchers who came together online, we cracked the case and I was able to bring lonelygirl to justice. Through a painstaking sting operation, we were able to establish a connection between lonelygirl and the world’s premiere talent agency, proving that Bree was in fact a fictional creation.

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