The Sacramento Bee mentions our ongoing litigation with Facebook and our next Attorney General, Chris Kelly (which was actually settled later that April Fools Day).
One thing I’m going to do in the future is go back and clearly mark April Fools jokes. I can easily understand how a non-tech reporter could be clicking through links, see that, and add it at the end of a story and create this kind of confusion.
I gave up on the Bee for anything tech a while ago. Oh wait.. Fry’s ads.. Love my Fry’s ad.
I can’t agree more. Need the Fry’s ad, especially on Sunday!
But yeah, I feel ashamed to live in Sacramento now. =/
Nice fact checking there.
On the bright side, I imagine this will increase the article’s page views quite a bit.
Should have included the last line from the article:
“He then threw his steaming hot triple soy latte espresso at me, which caused extensive second degree burns over the top half of my body. Later on, he also unfriended me.”
He’s lucky that fake $50 million lawsuit didn’t turn into a fake $100 million personal injury case.
Damn intertube.
absolutely fantastic. i love it.
Looks like traditional media is trying to race against the crowd-sourced blogosphere by cutting the fact-checking step.
April fool is for morons, don’t blame it on the traditional media, that’s pathetic.
Andrea must work for the Bee…
You would think people would have learned to check datelines after the whole United bankruptcy Sun-Sentinel / Bloomberg debacle.
Heh… Gotta’ love when traditional media tries to take advantage of news broken by new media…
And the Sacramento Bee is exceptional at goofs like this.
Add to this the fact that Sacramento TV stations tend to run stories found on Digg a week or three previous. Awesome.
When pointing out mistakes, TC should also point out their own. In the original post, MA gets the name wrong for former assemblyman Canciamilla; it’s Joe not Gerald.
April fool is for morons, Andrea must work for the Bee…