Easily fooled

IN Media Watch Briefs | 01/07/2008

A Goan blog called Penpricks played a practical trick on the news media by emailing them a hoax about a Nazi war criminal called Johann Bach being arrested on the Goan border. It was lapped up with alacrity by the The Times of India, Indian Express, Deccan Herald and Telegraph.

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