Fake iPhone Recall Story Gets Coverage as Real News
February 1st, 2007We were watching the local news tonight and the ABC affiliate aired a story claiming that Apple had recalled the iPhone. It was clear that the local news crew didn’t understand that the iPhone wasn’t on the market, despite recent rumors (1, 2). I figured that if this story was real, it would have been all over the internet and my feeds would be littered with hundreds of posts about it.
A quick search yielded the following:
Apple Recalls iPhone; Forgot to Include ëPhoneí Feature
Which was reposted here (without credit):
A nutty right-wing blog.
I so wish I could link to the video of the news report. Local news can be awesome in all the wrong ways. o
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February 1st, 2007 at 11:48 pm
Love your comment re local new…so very very true, and awesome.
February 2nd, 2007 at 9:09 am
This could come back to bite me, but I am cranky.
Ernie looks like the biggest f*cking douchebag. He’s a Sir Douchy McDouche Douche.
Was that picture taken on the golf course?
February 2nd, 2007 at 9:10 am
Oh, and if he were one of MY students, I’d call him a douchebag.
February 2nd, 2007 at 9:32 am
I love lying news the best, it’s so much more entertaining than boring old factual, good source reporting type news.
February 2nd, 2007 at 10:38 am
“This is Dick Norse. In Olympic news, Two Boy Scouts were injured today in the Uinta’s trying to “Light the fire within.”
There is some first class reporting going on in Salt Lake these days. First class, indeed.
February 2nd, 2007 at 6:01 pm
Yes, I saw the same news report last night and laughed my ass off. It is some good cheap humor.
February 3rd, 2007 at 3:44 pm
Don’t they have the internet in their newsrooms?
Hell, I work in market 141, and we’ve got the internet.