German newspaper says hoaxed by pro-smoking crusader
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A Hamburg newspaper that reported last week on a computer company manager who said he fired three non-smokers because they had threatened disruptions after asking for a smoke-free environment said on Monday the story was a hoax.
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A tobacco firm has said allegations it covered up evidence of the harmful effects of passive smoking are &quot;false, inaccurate and highly misleading&quot;.
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NEW YORK - A fake story about singer R. Kelly circulated on the Internet and attributed to The Associated Press was picked up by The Miami Herald and then sent by the Knight-Ridder/Tribune wire to newspapers across the country.
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A man who boasted to reporters around the world that his Web site allowed strangers to turn his outdoor Christmas lights off and on admitted Monday it was an elaborate hoax designed, he said, to spread holiday cheer.
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Valleywag is mostly puff pieces. I guess they're writing about people who, for one reason or another, they don't want to offend. Typical of business press. Don't screw your sources or else they'll dry up. Don't speak ill of Steve Jobs or else no cover picture for you. So, it's reasonable to conclude -- if you read something unbelievably nice about someone in Valleywag, that person is a source. Thing is, they're reduced to attacking about five people. And the flow is miniscule. A pointer from VW is worth about 20 hits. In other words, hire a business reporter to do VW, and you get Infoworld, about 25 years too late.
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The BBC News website looks at the long terror campaign waged by Germany's  most notorious urban guerrilla group.
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Smoking has been banned in bars in the capitals of France and Germany. Send us your reaction.
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A media exhibit featuring a campaign for a fake drug to treat a fictitious illness is causing a stir because some people think the illness is real.
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When the Chinese government said scandalous TV footage of a Beijing snack vendor stuffing steamed buns with flavored cardboard was a hoax, some quipped that even the news in China is fake.
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Anti-smoker powder coats puffing girlfriend An anti-smoking German man earned himself a light cuffing last Sunday after his girlfriend declined a request to stop smoking in his flat, and he responded by emptying a fire extinguisher over her and the Bielefeld domicile.â¦
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In a Sept. 5 story about the arrest of three terror suspects in Germany, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Defense Minister Franz Josef Jung specifically mentioned the U.S.
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One of the world&#39;s leading tobacco manufacturers, Philip Morris, hid data on research into the dangers of passive smoking, alleges a paper published in the British medical journal The Lancet.
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The image of a smoker who speaks through an artificial voice box, was scary enough to prompt thousands of New Yorkers to quit cigarettes last year.
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Contributors to the popular collaborative encyclopedia turned against one of their own who was found to have created an elaborate false identity.
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The cancellation of an opera in Germany for fear of offending Muslims outrages several European papers.
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The author at the center of an elaborate literary hoax is finally coming clean &#151; or so she says.
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GERMANYâS biggest-selling newspaper yesterday kicked off a politically embarrassing campaign to persuade the Queen to apologise for British wartime bombing before next weekâs state visit to Berlin.