L.A. Times Retracts Tupac Shakur Story
Going beyond an earlier apology, the Los Angeles Times today retracted a March article by a top reporter linking hip-hop mogul to a 1994 shooting of a well-known rap artist.
“The move came three weeks after the paper’s website carried a lengthy story by Pulitzer Prize-winner Chuck Philips, who said that associates of [Sean “Diddy”] Combs had arranged the assault on [Tupac] Shakur because they were angry that he had rejected overtures to sign with Combs’ Bad Boy Records label,” Reuters recounts.
The newspaper admits in its retraction today that the article relied on faked FBI documents. It also says that “some of the other sources relied on—including the person Philips previously believed to be the ‘confidential source’ cited in the FBI reports—do not support major elements of the story.”
