{"id":623,"date":"2007-05-20T22:55:03","date_gmt":"2007-05-21T05:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.macnightowl.com\/2007\/05\/20\/newsletter-390-preview-the-consequences-of-posting-fake-stories\/"},"modified":"2008-03-25T15:13:17","modified_gmt":"2008-03-25T22:13:17","slug":"newsletter-390-preview-the-consequences-of-posting-fake-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2007\/05\/newsletter-390-preview-the-consequences-of-posting-fake-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter #390 Preview: The Consequences of Posting Fake Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When someone writes about &#8220;the good old days,&#8221; it ages them. It means they&#8217;ve been around long enough to have survived another era. 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Or at least those portions of the planet where investors cared about such things.<\/p>\n<p>The story allegedly emerged from a source inside Apple, and apparently looked authentic enough to elude Engadget&#8217;s fact checkers, so they published the report, and all hell followed!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Click here to read the rest of the story\" href=\"http:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/newsletter\/2007\/05\/20\/newsletter-issue-390\/#followed\"><strong>Story continued in this week&#8217;s Tech Night Owl Newsletter.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When someone writes about &#8220;the good old days,&#8221; it ages them. It means they&#8217;ve been around long enough to have survived another era. 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