Beldner, an artist, teaches a St. Mary's College class called "Pranks: Culture jamming as social activism." Among his students' projects this term was the distribution of a news release touting a fictional bar to be opened near the Moraga campus.
Yes "how to dupe the media"..... obviously they are not people who have seen the Internet (which is the real easy place to do this.)
And what do the folks in Journalistic-Hippie-teach-so-I-can't-do Professorhood?
But journalists already have their hands full sifting facts from fiction without having to worry about deliberate misinformation, said Austin Long-Scott, who teaches journalism ethics at San Francisco State University. He compared the hoax to a computer virus.
"He is teaching students to try to screw up an important system that has enough trouble getting things right," Long-Scott said. "It's a destructive thing to do, and it violates a general societal ethic."
Yes folks it is wrong to try and trick reporters because they have trouble getting it right the first time.
Well thank you there captain obvious.
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