Uncategorized The Plaid Cow on 13 Jan 2005 09:30 pm
You Can’t Be Serious
According to a story on Yahoo! News, a Romanian couple has named their new son Yahoo. You can’t be serious.
Uncategorized The Plaid Cow on 13 Jan 2005 09:30 pm
According to a story on Yahoo! News, a Romanian couple has named their new son Yahoo. You can’t be serious.
on 24 Jan 2005 at 3:01 pm 1.monica said …
Reporter fired over fake Yahoo baby
Mon Jan 24, 6:22 AM ET
BUCHAREST (Reuters) - A Romanian tabloid says it has fired a reporter for making up a story about a couple who named their son Yahoo as a sign of gratitude for meeting over the Internet.
Earlier this month, major Bucharest daily Libertatea published a story saying two Romanians had named their baby Yahoo and printed a picture of his birth certificate. The news was widely picked up on the Internet.
“It was the reporter’s child’s birth certificate, which he modified,” said Simona Ionescu, Libertatea’s deputy editor-in-chief on Monday. “We fired him.”
She said Ion Garnod, who had worked for the paper for several years, had admitted inventing the story to look good.
“If it were real, it would have been a good story indeed,” Ionescu said.
Garnod was not available for comment.