a proliferation of hoaxes

Found this in the "business" section (!):

abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=4387116&page=1

these things seem to be increasing in frequency for some reason - perhaps an increasing inability on the part of editors to distinguish between the real and the hyperreal?

There's Orson Welles' War of the Worlds, and the Autobiography of Howard Hughes by Clifford Irving - check out Orson Welles "F is for Fake" as well...