Tribune's Abrams Fooled by Years-Old Spoof

Good to know that with Tribune Co. slogging its way through bankruptcy amid an industry-wide existential crisis, its chief innovation officer, Lee Abrams, is concentrating his brainpower on the stuff that really matters: a pop singer’s phony quote from 10 years ago.

In his latest “think piece,” the free-associative Abrams takes on the issue of “celebrity crimes against humanity,” imploring Tribune journalists not to “feed this machine” by mindlessly reprinting the inanities of famous people.

But one of the examples he uses–of Mariah Carey saying she’d love to be as skinny as a starving child in the Third World “but not with all those flies and death and stuff”–is bogus.

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