Dateline Hollywood Strikes Again--Baltimore News Station Fooled

Mike Schneider alerted us, the media, to another victim of Dateline Hollywood. A Baltimore TV station, WJZ-TV, reported a spoof story as real news:

Michael Richards is apologizing for appearing in blackface at a celebrity roast for Whoopi Goldberg over the weekend.

John Water’s hometown, and they can’t spot the joke? Or else people will believe anything about Michael Richards.

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