Word: hoaxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leave any ill will." Forty years later, when a group of Lampoon grads reissued the parody and sent the White House a copy, Roosevelt replied, "I myself, still a freshman, had been elected an Editor of The Crimson two or three days before, and my rage at the hoax was only equalled by the rage of the two senior editors of that august daily paper who lived next door to me...I am more and more certain of the superiority of our generation of undergraduates compared with the somewhat effete specimens who have followed us," he added...
...telephone message to the Beirut office of the Italian news agency ANSA. The caller, speaking in Arabic, claimed that Dozier had been executed and that his body could be found in a small but unnamed Italian village. Police found nothing, and the message was considered to be a hoax...
Insiders at the paper said the apologia was written "under duress" by Editorial Page Editor Meg Greenfield, meaning that she got a lot of heat from Executive Editor Ben Bradlee and Publisher Donald Graham. Post reporters, still smarting from the Janet Cooke Pulitzer Prize hoax earlier this year, were distressed to see their paper leaping into another ethical mud puddle. So were other journalists...
...savagery, were familiar and extravagantly praised. One belonged to a popinjay character called Reginald, who discoursed in a series of semiprecious mots: "I hate posterity. It's so fond of having the last word." Another was Clovis Sangrail, a young man much given to the kind of "gorgeous hoax" that might scandalize a dull house party. Last came Comus Bassington, the hero-villain-victim of Saki's splendid novel The Unbearable Bassington, a tribute to lost youth that discovers deep sadness in the social shallows of Edwardian England...
Women's Wear Daily produced the most inventive coverage of the week, presenting a bogus drawing of Lady Diana's bridal gown the day before the ceremony. "We said this could be a hoax before we ran it," said Publisher John Fairchild. "I thought it made a very amusing story." Fleet Street was at its creative best, too, telling readers what Charles whispered to Diana at intimate moments. And how did the newspapers find out? They hired lip readers...