People upset that newspaper confuses entertainment with news.

[donco6]

Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- At first glance of Friday's Los Angeles Times, you might think the Mad Hatter has taken over the newspaper.

Johnny Depp's colorful character in Disney's new film "Alice in Wonderland" dominates a faked front page, which includes the paper's traditional flag and two stories that appeared in the paper last month.

"What offends my traditional sensibilities is the notion that you would be willing to deceive the reader into thinking that this was the actual front page," Clark said.


http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/TV/03/05/la.times.faked.page/index.html?hpt=Sbin


Is this guy serious? At least this time it's made obvious that it's an ad. Most of the time you have to ferret that fact out for yourself.

[nuxvomica]

1. I think your subject line is a little misleading

They are confusing entertainment advertising with news, not entertainment per se. I have no problem with the ad placement but I don't like that they embedded real news stories in it. Newspapers are having a tough time financially and they need to experiment but I hope this sort of innovation doesn't get repeated. It's dangerously close to "eating their seed corn."

[Pab Sungenis]

2. This from a network where yesterday

They did a six minute segment about Peter Parker getting fired from the Daily Bugle.

Alleged journalist, heal thyself.

[nuxvomica]

3. Did you notice this...

Although Conroy said readers would not be confused by the fake front, several journalists in CNN's Los Angeles bureau did not immediately realize that the real front page was inside.

I'm not surprised. :eyes: