L.A. Times Say Sorry To Diddy

Ooh, I knew this was going to happen when I saw this L.A. Times story. I guess even big newspapers make major blunders. Here’s the gist. The L.A. Times ran a story on March 17 that implicated Sean Combs in Tupac Shakur’s murder. The Times also used documents that were fabricated to implicate Combs’ associates in an attack against Shakur in 1994. Pulitzer-prize winning reporter Chuck Phillips wrote the story and he has since issued an apology to Sean Combs, as well as the paper’s Managing Editor, Marc Duvoisin. The paper investigated the story after The Smoking Gun website reported that the Times had been conned by a prisoner who doctored the documents used for the story. It’s great that the paper apologized to Combs, but I would still be upset if I was him. They should’ve really done their fact-checking before they published that story. Who knows if Combs is going to take any legal actions regarding this, but we’ll keep you updated.