Cornell Daily Sun Prints Fake News

Posted in Organizations, Public Image by Cornell's Most Infamous on October 31st, 2005.

What kind of journalism produces fake news articles which masquerade as real news? Apparently the Cornell Daily Sun, in their special Halloween edition, believe strongly in veritas absentia, quisquam est verus or in the absense of truth, anything is true. They even include the following ridiculous photo-composition:

I hate to mention this, but I hate bad journalism, and this is it at its worst. Oh Editors, where are you?

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4 Responses to “Cornell Daily Sun Prints Fake News”

ilr'93 says:

10/31/2005 at 10:42 am

i thought fake articles were for april fool’s day, not halloween!

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Amanda Woodstrom says:

2/10/2007 at 1:05 pm

Sick

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Gino says:

1/6/2008 at 4:11 am

What kind of journelism produces fake news that masquerades as real news? Fox news makes a lot of money doing exactly that!

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JP says:

11/21/2008 at 10:39 pm

My hs newspaper does an april fools issue. This however looks a lot cooler.

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