Remember those allegations that surfaced regarding the 1994 shooting incident of Tupac Shakuar? Well, some guy had come forth and gave word to the L.A. Times that P. Diddy was responsible for the shooting. P. Diddy got bent out of shape and stated that the allegations were false, however L.A. Times believed the accusations were true and published the article. Well, now they are apologizing and stating that the person that inspired the story is some nutcase behind bars. I do think that the L.A. Times should have investigated allegations so crucial as the ones that they reported, but didn’t Tupac already confirm that P.Diddy was the person responsible for the shootings years ago on his albums and in interviews? “Who shot me? but you punks didn’t finish, now you bout to hear the wrath of a menace,” were the words from his hit song “hit em up.” Therefore, P.Diddy can pay as much money as he wants to make people with no money seem crazy, but he knows deep down what went down and who was responsible. I’m not saying I was there, nor have I personally spoke with the late greatest rapper of all times, Tupac, but the writings are clearly written on the wall, if you don’t believe me, pop in a Tupac CD.
" The Los Angeles Times on Wednesday apologized for publishing a story about the 1994 shooting of rapper Tupac Shakur, after a Web site questioned the authenticity of documents the paper used for the report.
The story by Pulitzer Prize-winner Chuck Philips sought to link rap music mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs to the assault on Shakur through two men the paper said were Combs' associates.
Shortly after its publication last week, Combs called the Times story "beyond ridiculous and ... completely false." He strongly denied any involvement in the attack.
The Smoking Gun, a Web site that specializes in uncovering news from legal documents and court filings, said on Wednesday it believed Federal Bureau of Investigation documents used by the Times were forgeries.
The paper launched an immediate investigation, and Philips issued an apology later in the day, as did his supervisor, deputy managing editor Marc Duvoisin.
"In relying on documents that I now believe were fake, I failed to do my job," Philips said. "I'm sorry."
Los Angeles Times editor Russ Stanton, who took the top job last month after several years of cutback-related upheaval at the fourth-largest paper in the United States, said he would launch an internal review of the documents and the reporting surrounding the story.
"We published this story with the sincere belief that the documents were genuine, but our good intentions are beside the point," Stanton said in a statement published on the paper's Web site.
"The bottom line is that the documents we relied on should not have been used. We apologize both to our readers and to those referenced in the documents and, as a result, in the story. We are continuing to investigate this matter and will fulfill our journalistic responsibility for critical self-examination."
Shakur, one of rap's rising singers, survived a beating and gunshot wounds to the groin, head, hand and thigh at the Quad Recording Studios in New York City in 1994 but was killed in 1996 in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas."
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