Hazlegate

[webofevil]

Ronnie Hazlehurst did not co-write the song “Reach” by S Club 7. Someone, however, amended his Wikipedia entry mere weeks ago to say that he did. Whether they knew he was shortly to die is open to speculation but, intentionally or not, that otherwise pointless hoax has functioned as a barium meal highlighting other people’s lazy research:

The Hazlepedia Hall of Shame

Comments

[webofevil.livejournal.com]

> According to my work database, "your search REACH + HAZLEHURST did not match any documents." So there.

I'm glad to hear it, but News 24—desperate as ever, in the modern digitial media marketplace, to be the first to be wrong—certainly fell for it (http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_7020000/newsid_7024200/7024240.stm?bw=bb&mp=rm&asb=1&news=1).

[lebeautemps.livejournal.com]

Oh dear.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I've told our meedja department about it now. It'll probably get consigned to the ever-hilarious quirkies box at the bottom of our weekly company mailout.