'LAT' Comes Correct About Their Bogus Tupac Story

After an independent investigation into yesterday's stunning report by The Smoking Gun that the LAT had managed to be duped by a federally incarcerated Turtle-like, who forged FBI documents implicated Sean "Puffy" Combs's entourage in the 1994 shooting of Tupac Shakur at the Quad Recording Studios in Times Square (five bullets, including one through his head and one through his scrotum), the paper has now officially issued on apology:

Reporter Chuck Philips and his supervisor, Deputy Managing Editor Marc Duvoisin, issued statements of apology Wednesday afternoon.

"In relying on documents that I now believe were fake, I failed to do my job," Philips said in a statement Wednesday. "I'm sorry."
In his statement, Duvoisin added: "We should not have let ourselves be fooled. That we were is as much my fault as Chuck's. I deeply regret that we let our readers down."

The humiliating gaffe is but another notch on the scoreboard for the LAT's chief rivalry in the ongoing East Coast/West Coast newspaper wars; members of the NY Times's thug posse are reportedly having copies of the apology mounted in every department, where it will hang alongside their framed Platinum "Most Dangerous Motherfucker Paper of Record" Pulitzer.

The Times apologizes over article on rapper [LAT]

9:52 AM on Thu Mar 27 2008
By Seth
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Cam/ron at 10:23 AM on 03/27/08
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You'd think that a Pulitzer winner would know better than to believe that FBI documents are as true as the word of God.
blackheartededitor at 12:37 PM on 03/27/08
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Ha! Web: 1 Print Media: 10,000,000
MrRewrite at 03:03 PM on 03/27/08
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The LAT is the thinnest big-city paper out there, it's the paper L.A. doesn't deserve. Easy to pick up, easy to put down; they couldn't get out in front of a major transportation or environmental issue if they spent a week of all-nighters in the office. They loves city hall perks to o much to every upset anyone; easier to write thumbsuckers about the filmic flavor of the week.
yvonnjanae at 10:07 PM on 03/27/08
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Journalism, my journalism, what has happened to you? Any first year reporter should know more about checking sources than this Pulitzer Prize winner did. He should be fired, but probably won't be because LAT is probably hoping this flies under the radar of most mainstream readers because it's about hip-hop.