Phoenix New Times Confuses Satire For Fact, Sticks It In A Cover Story

Here’s what happened: One year ago, Con Chapman wrote a satirical blog post on the community section of FoxNews.com about an NBA “tattoo cap” that would allow no more than 61% of the upper arms and necks of players to be inked. Last week, the Phoenix New Times went to press with a 4,500 word cover story about tattoos in the NBA- and reported the aforementioned satirical post as fact. The author of the story, Niki D’Andrea, even went so far as to include a quote from the joke post supposedly from NBA Commissioner David Stern: “We feel it is important that our players not scare the bejesus out of affluent demographic groups with gangsta-style tattoos.”