Punk’d, Trump’d, and April Fool’d

time_out_chicago_trump.jpg At least one news organization has already been April Fool-ed: Crain’s Chicago Business. They picked up a fake press release from Time Out Chicago, which claimed Donald Trump had assumed a controlling interest in the magazine. (It helped that Donald smiled at readers from the cover of the March 27-April 2 issue under the headline “Our New Owner.”) Says TONY: “We thought people would realize this was a parody issue.” And we thought nobody took press releases at face value.

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