Word: hoax
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...play itself became a textbook example of mass hysteria: in 1940, Princeton psychologist Hadley Cantril used an analysis of listeners' reactions to posit that social panics occur when large groups can't discern reliable sources of advice from unreliable ones. That said, there's little chance that a media hoax of this magnitude could happen again. We've grown too sophisticated, too cynical to believe that little green men from Mars with big silver spaceships will land in New Jersey, of all places. We're too smart, for example, to be fooled by telephone calls suggesting that John McCain illegitimately...
...Berkeley. Because the student groups have no one in Italy to verify Gall’s story, they consulted with a number of private investigators and lawyers to insure that there was no threat to the security of the students registered in case the whole trip was a hoax, Zafran said. According to Zafran, Gall only had the names, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses of the students who had registered for the trip. Obama headquarters in each of the cities had already arranged housing for the volunteers, and the Dems had begun working on arranging local transportation...
Wait, whoa, hang on. This is no hoax. It happened to me. See, I had a flight with a connection in Dallas-Ft. Worth (DFW) and ... no, no, really, don't click the back button...
...says Schon, who has been with Journey since its inception in 1975. "I thought, he can't be that good." Schon left his house, took a spin on his motorcycle to clear his head, and then contacted Pineda. At first, the singer thought the e-mail was a hoax. "I didn't think the real Neal Schon would call a guy like me," says Pineda. "I'm just a guy from the Philippines." But four months later, Pineda became Journey's new lead singer. "I've been waiting for this moment to come for 25 years," he says...
...says Schon, who has been with Journey since its inception in 1975. "I thought, he can't be that good." Schon left his house, took a spin on his motorcycle to clear his head, and then contacted Pineda. At first, the singer thought the email was a hoax. "I didn't think the real Neal Schon would call a guy like me," says Pineda. "I'm just a guy from the Philippines." Four months later, Pineda signed on as Journey's new lead singer. "I've been waiting for this moment to come for 25 years," he says...