BY KARI DEQUINE HARDEN
New Orleans bureau
April 29, 2013
MANDEVILLE — Mandeville High School students learned a valuable lesson in journalism this month: Don’t make up news.
The Crest, the school’s student newspaper, caused chaos at the La Carreta restaurant this weekend after it ran a fake article Friday stating that the popular establishment was closing because it failed to pass a routine health inspection.
Quoting a “Food Inspector” named Shawn Stevens, the student author wrote: “‘La Caretta (sic) restaurant blew me away when I went into the kitchen. … I found they are re-using the food that people didn’t eat and making it seem as if they had just cooked it.”
The article was intended as a more than three-week late April Fool’s Day joke, according to the school’s principal, Bruce Bundy. But it gained further attention when an image of it went viral on Facebook without any indication that it was fabricated.
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