The New Yorker Has the #PizzaRat Scoop

His name is Paul.

Ha ha. Lest we need a reminder, The New Yorker is fully on board with today’s viral news age.

Just a few hours after comedian Matt Little’s #pizzarat video footage started burning up social media, the magazine website added a piece titled “I Am the Pizza Rat.” The byline belongs to managing editor Silvia Killingsworth; and the text, most definitely to the rat. Here are item’s first two paragraphs:

My name is Paul, and I am the pizza rat.

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