Posted 11:20 AM by Scoobie Davis

We Report, You Laugh Out Loud
Fox News was hoaxed by the parody web site Hollywood Pulse regarding a story Fox News did on the legal troubles of comedienne Paula Poundstone. Ray Richmond, who runs the web site and wrote a satirical story “Paula Poundstone Granted Supervised Child Abuse,” was contacted by Fox News for a serious interview on Paula Poundstone’s legal problems. Fox News, which apparently didn’t check the article, included an interview with Richmond in its news story on Poundstone. Click here for the full story.

On the Michael Jackson radio show, Richmond said, "This site [Hollywood Pulse] has no absolutely no basis in fact…If you look at it, it is clearly one hundred percent humor, satire, spoof. But they blindly emailed our contact… seeking an expert to include in a story they were putting together on Paula Poundstone and her legal problems. And, of course, we thought, well, that’s interesting--why would they want us? They mistook us, of course, for an actual news organization, as opposed to a humor site…If they had read one sentence, they would have seen that our story that week about Paula Poundstone had to do with the fact that she was granted supervised child abuse privileges.”