Un-freaking-believable!

Just read Florida Cracker, With Cheese and the Chicago Tribune where the story broke.

The AP's take on this seems to be very sympathetic to the student newspaper.

CARBONDALE, Ill. -- The student newspaper at Southern Illinois University was taken in by an elaborate hoax in which a child, tricked into thinking she was playing a movie role, posed as the daughter of a man serving in Iraq, the publication said Friday.

The tale, which stretched over two years, began to unravel last week when the paper, The Daily Egyptian, heard that the "soldier" had been killed in Iraq and subsequent investigations by the student newspaper and the Chicago Tribune exposed that he didn't exist.

Interesting that its not until the newspaper was going to do a feature on the death of the little girls Daddy did they finally decide to do some fact checking. Why wasn't that done after receiving the very first letter. Stupid question. We know exactly why!

And I love this "troubling" comment...
"In the course of checking out the details, a troubling problem appeared: The story wasn't true," The Daily Egyptian wrote Friday in an editorial. "What began as a nightmarish possibility became impossible to deny."

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