Tribune Site Falls for Phony Rebecca Black Flyer
We give Zap2It.com associate editor Liz Kelly Nelson full credit for the way she takes responsibility for an erroneous item that ran on the site last Friday, March 18th.
Turns out a flyer (pictured) announcing an upcoming tour of U.S. shopping malls by YouTube singing sensation Rebecca Black (“Friday”) was all just an elaborate Photoshop hoax. Nelson and her LA colleagues lean on the New York Times in today’s correction, but that’s fine. Media misery loves company.
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