Mel Gibson - the plot thickens

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KLin

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Originally posted by: mcvickj
Hey fellas....check the bottom of the page.

"This is a faux news article, please remember to check multiple sources and facts."

I missed that :laugh:.
 

mugs

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Man you people are retarded.

I hardly got into the second paragraph before it became obvious that it wasn't written by a journalist.
 

nakedfrog

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Originally posted by: KLin
I'm sure the BBC has no connections with this guy who owns bbclosangeles.com

Heh, good catch, I hadn't looked that closely.
 

KLin

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Originally posted by: mugs
Man you people are retarded.

I hardly got into the second paragraph before it became obvious that it wasn't written by a journalist.

I just looked at the URL and had an inkling that it was fake. ;)
 

2Dead

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of course its fake but pass it around and see what others think. I already got a couple of good laughs
 
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Even if it is fake you gotta know that Tom Cruise is silently thanking Gibson for shifting the nations attention from him.
 

Homerboy

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LMAO at the idiots in this thread bleiving this is true...
"OH!!! the website has BBC in it... it MUST be affiliated with the BBC in Europe!"

 

mugs

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Originally posted by: KLin
Originally posted by: mugs
Man you people are retarded.

I hardly got into the second paragraph before it became obvious that it wasn't written by a journalist.

I just looked at the URL and had an inkling that it was fake. ;)

After I noticed the writing style was "faux-journalistic" I looked right up at the URL bar and figured it out. ;) People try TOO hard to copy the writing style of journalists, and they end up overdoing it.