AP: Irish student hoaxes world’s media with fake quote

Shortly after learning composer Maurice Jarre died, an Irish undergrad concocted a cheesy quote from the deceased, and posted it to Wikipedia. News outlets around the world cherry-picked the quote and ran it without first doing a fact-check.

There are many things I would like to see on TV, but this is not one of them: Watts launches African-American channel – Politico.com

JC Watts represented Norman, OK in the US House when I was in college at OU. He was a former OU football star and a Republican. If I remember correctly, the local NAACP protested his fund-raisers.