“The Fourth Kind,” an alien abduction movie set in Nome, used a guerilla marketing campaign to try and fool audiences into thinking the main character was a real person studying real mysteries in Alaska.
If you Googled the movie when it first came out, you might stumble across stories that appeared to be written by real Alaska reporters. Except some of those stories – like the claim that the movie is based on real “archival footage” – are fake.
Now the film company distributing the film has agreed to give $22,250 to the Alaska Press Club and a Calista Scholarship Fund in a settlement with several state newspapers, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports.
RTR here.
2 comments:
So... fabricated news stories.
This is new how?
*grumble*
:)
Obviously they studied under Dan Rather.
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