The LA Times ran a cover story back on March 17th that turned out was total bullshit.

It’s not everyday that one of the biggest newspapers in America fucks up (or it’s not everyday that one of the biggest newspapers in America admits it fucked up). In addition to the retraction the LA Times will send Puffy some candy, flowers, and a card. In exchange I’m thinking the LA Times will get a big fat libel lawsuit and Puffy will again get paid.

From the LA Times piece:

An article and related materials published on the Los Angeles Times website on March 17 have been removed from the site because they relied heavily on information that The Times no longer believes to be credible.

The article, titled “An Attack on Tupac Shakur Launched a Hip-Hop War” and written by Times staff writer Chuck Philips, purported to relate “new” information about a 1994 assault on rap star Tupac Shakur, including a description of events contained in FBI reports.

The Times has since concluded that the FBI reports were fabricated and that some of the other sources relied on — including the person Philips previously believed to be the “confidential source” cited in the FBI reports — do not support major elements of the story.
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