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May 12, 2009 · Journalism flunked. The sociology major's made-up 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...
Wed May 6 2009 - 01:00. A WIKIPEDIA hoax by a 22-year-old Dublin student resulted in a fake quote being published in newspaper obituaries around the world. The quote was attributed to French...
May 7, 2009 · Irish student's Jarre wiki hoax dupes journalists. By Reuters. May 7, 20092:23 AM PDTUpdated 15 years ago. DUBLIN (Reuters) - "When I die there will be a final waltz playing in my head,"...
Jun 8, 2009 · Fitzgerald chose the Wikipedia entry of recently deceased French composer Maurice Jarre, who wrote the music for films such as "Doctor Zhivago," "Dead Poets Society," and "Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo". However, the third time he tried, the editors were, perhaps, drinking a little herbal tea or copulating in a virtual broom cupboard, because the ...
May 8, 2009 · Apparently, an Irish college student inserted some finely crafted, yet totally false wording into the Wikipedia entry for composer Maurice Jarre, who had just passed. That finely crafted, yet...
Mar 30, 2009 · Maurice Jarre died on 28 March 2009, not 29 March. We opened with a quotation which we are now advised had been invented as a hoax, and was never said by the composer: "My life has been one...
May 6, 2009 · abc.net.au/news/students-wikipedia-hoax-dupes-newspapers-report/1674760. Copy link. An Irish student's fake quote on the Wikipedia online encyclopaedia has been used in newspaper obituaries around the world, the Irish Times reported on Wednesday. The quote was attributed to French composer Maurice Jarre, who died in March.
