A lot of people consider themselves "in the know" because they get their information from bulletin boards. We always caution people to take the information they find there with a grain of salt, because you don't know who posted it or what their agenda was. Here's a good case in point of how a whole city got taken in:
Ever since Carnival Holiday started cruising from Mobile, the city has wanted more - a larger ship, a newer ship and/or a second ship. So last Friday when a Carnival press release showed up on the Cruise Critic bulletin board announcing a larger ship, news spread like wildfire around the Mobile area. The story got to the local newspaper very quickly on Friday, and being good journalists, they called Carnival to verify.
That's when the heady moment began to deflate. Carnival was surprised, to say the least. They had no plans to change ships in Mobile. They hadn't issued any press release. The press release posted on Cruise Critic was a hoax, but one very skillfully written to appear to be the real thing, and Carnival asked that Cruise Critic remove it.
The whole disappointing adventure is chronicled in an article in Mobile's Press-Register.
Post on the bulletin boards, if you must, but get your information from a reliable news source - and bulletin boards aren't very reliable.
Note: Link is valid at time of posting.
