Monday, April 4, 2011

Gotcha Journalism?

NBC NEWS WITH Brian Williams was nearly tricked by an Army press release stating that the new standard-issue headgear for soldiers would be a Stetson cowboy hat.

NBC ran a story despite it being an April Fool's joke.

Is it newsworthy?

5 comments:

Sarah Mariano said...

I can't believe they fell for it! Or almost did. I would never believe anything anyone told me on April Fools. But at least they remembered the photo. That saved them from a lot of embarrassment. I give major props to the Army for this.

Brittany said...

How can I get added to the list of TU Student Bloggers on the side? I'm a TU Communications Major and just started blogging...

Geo said...

Send me a link to your site, Brittany.

- George
(the teacher who will promote any student's site if you are doing journalistic work)

Brittany said...

http://brittanyisacommajor.blogspot.com/

Thanks a lot!
-Brittany

Anonymous said...

HmmM... I think that NBC could get away with it being April Fools but otherwise it was not appropriate for air.