The Romanian tabloid newspaper Libertatea has fired a reporter after he made up a story about a couple naming their son ‘Yahoo.’ Reuters and several other news agencies, including this very weblog, picked up the story. The paper’s deputy editor, Simona Ionescu, said: “If it were real, it would have been a good story indeed.” Some things really are too good to be true.
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