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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWait...a HOAX? grrrrr UPDATE: SORRY, it's true
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Wait...a HOAX? grrrrr UPDATE: SORRY, it's true (Original Post)
graywarrior
Oct 2013
OP
CNN'll say the jury's out until the guy's great-grandchildren die of old age anyway. (nt)
Posteritatis
Oct 2013
#12
Revanchist
(1,375 posts)2. But you're not allowed to lie on the internet!
I read that on the internet.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)3. It's not a hoax. Mediamass is a comedy site. Every
major news source is reporting that Reed is dead.
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)5. cnn hasn't
morningfog
(18,115 posts)7. Given CNN's recent track record, it doesn't mean much.
Rolling Stone has it. Until they retract, I will continue to mourn.
Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)12. CNN'll say the jury's out until the guy's great-grandchildren die of old age anyway. (nt)
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)4. "The Mediamass Project : Media criticism through satire"
TeamPooka
(24,231 posts)6. not funny mediamass. #fail
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)8. He is dead. Nt.
morningfog
(18,115 posts)9. Confirmed by his agent to ABC and Guardian.
Lou Reed has died.
Lex
(34,108 posts)10. Not a hoax.
malaise
(269,082 posts)11. It's not a hoax
Call Me Wesley
(38,187 posts)13. No hoax.
Safe passage.
duffyduff
(3,251 posts)14. Not a hoax. It's everywhere in the legitimate media. n/t
MADem
(135,425 posts)15. Not your fault--you were bitten in the ass by a "humor" site that isn't funny.
Those, like lies, are popping (I almost said pooping, and that would work too) out all over the internet these days.
Comedy only looks easy--I wish some of these assclowns making "jokes" like this realized that.
graywarrior
(59,440 posts)16. A rotten thing to do to a great man.
MADem
(135,425 posts)17. Yes, indeed. nt