One e mail prank(link at the end of the post) = 10 "investigative reports"= 100 stories
Rumours = News... Unconfirmed /baseless reports dished out as "News"
Infallible Indian journalists have been spooked by a delightful Da Vinci Code style hoax played on them. see how convincing the "news" is with supporting graphics!(sad part: none of them published clarification!- exception being Kannada prabha/ The Hindu )read more on this hoax...http://churumuri.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/for-indian-journos-april-1-comes-10-months-early/ See how they made fun of cops based on this "news" http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Bangalore/Cops_stunned_over_Nazi_mans_capture/articleshow/3178643.cms
On Sunday, almost every newspaper reported the arrest of Johann Bach, an 88-year-old Nazi war criminal, in the jungles of Khanapur, close to Goa, on Saturday.
A classified advertisement inserted by the “Waffen SS” fugitive to sell an 18th century piano was supposed to have led Perus Narkp detectives to the “senior adjutant” who reportedly had a role in the “extermination” of 12,000 Jews at the Marsha Tikash Whanaab concentration camp in East Berlin.
Bangalore based newspapers went to town with the news:
# “Hitler’s stormtrooper held in Karnataka,” headlined
Deccan Herald.
# “World War II criminal arrested?” asked
The Hindu# “Cops stunned over Nazi man’s arrest,” said
The Times of India# “Antique piano ad leads police to Nazi colonel near Belgaum,” said the New Indian Express.
On Monday, the up-country papers went a step further.
# “Traced to Goa, Nazi war criminal tried to enter Karnataka, arrested on way and flown to Berlin,” said
The Indian Express, Delhi
# “Goa piano ‘thief’ found to be Nazi war fugitive,” said
The Telegraph, Calcutta, with a helpful graphic (above) of the flight of the Nazi criminal.
Wanted by Interpol, octagenarian Bach, it was reported, had escaped the Nuremberg trials and evaded justice for over half a century. On the German government’s “Most wanted list” since the end of WW II, he had spent time in Argentina, Bulgaria, Yemen and Canada.
Apparently, the Israeli media had reported his sighting in Calungute, Goa. But V.S. Acharya, Karnataka’s home minister, denied any knowledge. Hemant Nimbalkar, Belgaum superintendent of police, said he was unaware of the incident.
But the papers said Bach had been picked up by detectives of Perus Narkp who are part of the German chancellor’s “Core” team in collaboration with Indian intelligence.
Anil Budur Lulla of The Telegraph “exclusively” reported that “Berlin also had information from Tel Aviv that an old German had bragged about overseeing the genocide of Jews to an Israeli tourist couple in Goa during a rave party a few months ago.”
Deccan Herald quoted a press released issued by “Perus Narkp”. Times of India said the press note was circulated by email.
The Telegraph, quoting “sources”, said that “after further investigations in Goa, proceedings would begin to take Bach to Germany, with whom India signed an extradition treaty in 2004.” Deccan Herald said he would “be facing trial at the International Court of Justice at The Hague.”
And on and on it went.
Well, it turns out, it was all a super prank, obviously played by someone with some taste in western classical music.
Analysis on : http://blogs.reuters.com/india/2008/06/30/indian-newspapers-fall-for-baroque-nazi-war-criminal-hoax/
Stories that are too good to check , in The Hindu http://www.hindu.com/2008/07/01/stories/2008070152221100.htm
See the text of origial email sent to media: (based on this text, creative writers spun stories in various newspapers) http://goadourada.blogspot.com/2008/06/attn-german-special-police-arrest-nazi.html
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"It is being contemplated to develop mine tourism in Kudremukh region.The KIOCL facility is still in pristine condition and can be utilisedfor educating the youth and children on how the mining activities are carried out" (here is some info on Mine Tourism)
Dr.V.S.Acharya visited Mines City in 2002 while on a personal trip toMalaysia (background lake was once a tin mine. Building in thebackground is Palace of Golden Horses - part of Mines City)
