Despite the disclaimer, this doesn't belong here. If someone wants to preserve it somewhere, then how about a page like Famous hoaxes.
- === Orson Welles (1938) ===
- In 1938 Orson Welles broadcast a radio adaptation of the science fiction story The War of the Worlds, causing panic as many mistook the fictionalized account of a Martian invasion of the United States to be an actual event. Strictly speaking, though, Welles' broadcast more properly qualifies as a hoax rather than an instance of journalism fraud.
-- Viajero 11:03, 23 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Why do so many of the instances of fraud involve liberal/left-wing reportage vs. so few of a conservative/right-wing reportage? Just curious, actually. 68.77.93.174 13:33, 12 Dec 2003 (UTC)
And why are they all US (with one exception), and one piece of what I presume is black propaganda - the Al-Jazeera (2003) entry. I wonder if they retracted it later - the image that the independent arab media is a front for the "bad guys" sticks however. Secretlondon 13:38, Dec 12, 2003 (UTC)
The Janet Cooke entry needs a bit of clarification. She confessed that the "Jimmy" of her artciles was a fabrication. She claimed that he was a composite of several real individuals, but I do not believe that the Post ombudsman was ever able to verify that she ever had any contact with any real child heroin addicts. This should be checked against the ombudsman's article in the Post which appeared shortly after she was stripped of the Pulitzer. 19:34, 11 Jan 2004 (UTC)