Celebrity News
A hoax video purportedly showing Michael Jackson emerging from a coroner’s van was an experiment aimed at showing how quickly misinformation and conspiracy theories can race across the Internet, German broadcaster RTL said yesterday. The video was posted by RTL on YouTube for a single day a week ago and received 880,000 hits. The broadcaster has since removed the video from YouTube, but it has been picked up by other websites. “We wanted to show how easily users can be manipulated on the Internet,’’ said RTL spokesman Heike Schultz.
Jay-Z honors Ashe
Jay-Z has designed a T-shirt with an image of Arthur Ashe that will be sold during the US Open to benefit charity. The shirt is part of the rap mogul’s Rocawear clothing line and commemorates the USTA National Junior Tennis and Learning network’s 40th anniversary. Ashe cofounded the NJTL network in 1969. Proceeds will benefit NJTL and the Arthur Ashe Endowment for the Defeat of AIDS.Oprah hits Chicago
A Harpo Productions spokeswoman said yesterday that Oprah Winfrey is celebrating the kickoff of the 24th season of “The Oprah Winfrey Show’’ by taping the program on a stretch of Chicago’s Michigan Avenue.
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