Hazlegate

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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

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Lazily: from someone else on a mailing list. Hi, Jonathan!

I watched the News 24 clip when it went out and had no reason to question the claim. To find out the following day that not only had the broadcasters I'd been watching been duped but the same apparently went for everyone else in the media was a little sobering.