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=== Great Blue Hill eruption prank === | |||
* [[File:Great Blue Hill from Trillium.jpeg|thumb|Great Blue Hill in Massachusetts. On April 1, 1980 a local news station reported it was erupting.]] at 6:00 pm on April 1, 1980, a Milton, MA news station aired a fake news bulletin that announced that a nearby, small mountain was erupting | |||
** the report was one week after the tremendous eruption of Mt. St. Helens | |||
** the report showed edited statements of concern by Massachusetts Governor and President Carter | |||
** panicked residents called the police and the state Civil Defense office | |||
** some were reported to have fled the area | |||
* at 11:00 the state apologized for the hoax | |||
* the producer of the 6:00 news segment was fired the next day | |||
** in addition "failure to exercise good news judgment," the producer had also violated FCC rules regarding use of "stock footage" (old news footage) without identifying it as such<br /> | |||
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