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A Wikipedia Hoax The story is about how a student posted misleading information on a Wikipedia listing about the famous artist Maurice Jarre, which was hours before his death. The student fabricated a quote that the legend had created before his death, and journalist all over Europe copy and pasted this information that led to them missing the ...
May 7, 2009 · Here’s another great reminder for journalists to check their sources. A 22-year-old Dublin student fooled journalists around the world when he posted a fake quote on French composer Maurice Jarre’s Wikipedia page. The fake quote soon appeared in obituaries published by The Guardian, BBC Music Magazine, and The London Independent among others.
May 6, 2009 · The quote was attributed to French composer Maurice Jarre, who died in March. ... He said the hoax remained undiscovered for weeks until he emailed the newspapers that had been deceived to tell ...
May 7, 2009 · The quote was attributed to French composer Maurice Jarre who died in March. Shane Fitzgerald, 22, a final-year student studying sociology and economics at University College Dublin, told the ...
May 12, 2009 · The sociology major's obituary-friendly quote - which he added to the Wikipedia page of Maurice Jarre hours after the French composer's death March 28 - flew straight on to dozens of US blogs and ...
Mar 23, 2015 · They include famous pranks like fake quotes attributed to French composer and conductor Maurice Jarre which were picked up in the media after his death. This list is incomplete, as many hoaxes ...
Mar 31, 2009 · Maurice Alexis Jarre was born Sept. 13, 1924, in Lyon, France. He came to music relatively late, dropping out of the Sorbonne, where he was studying engineering, and enrolling in the Paris ...
