Hot off the Tiger Woods trail, TMZ falls for Kennedy photo hoax
After its scoops with the Michael Jackson and Tiger Woods stories, entertainment web site TMZ hit a dead end Monday with a photo it claimed showed four women frolicking on a yacht where not-quite-yet-President John F. Kennedy is said to be seen relaxing.
The alleged photo, with all naughty bits pixelated for your safety while reading us at work:
Yeah, the guy on the left is supposed to be Sen. Kennedy during a cruise in the Mediterranean in 1956, TMZ says:
The problem, of course, is that it’s a fraud. The photo is actually from a 1967 issue of Playboy magazine:
The two topless women, the two naked women and the man — who, to us, looks more like Patrick McGoohan than JFK — are all models.
TMZ gets all sorts of credit — and rightfully so — for breaking stories this year. But do readers hold them accountable when they get something flagrantly wrong?
Read all about it in the Smoking Gun.
December 29th, 2009 at 5:22 pm
Playboy is at the top of their game in dissing TMZ for this sloppy bit.
They published a string of alternate spoof photos to rub the salt in.
LINK:
http://www.playboy.com/articles/playboy-tmz-jfk-yacht-party-photos/index.html
January 7th, 2010 at 3:46 pm
even after the mj news, i still can never take tmz seriously as a legitimate source: one word: upskirts.