Times Takes It Too Far?

4/8/2008
Melanie Sutrathada
The "Los Angeles Times" connected Sean "Diddy" Combs to a nonfatal shooting of Tupac Shakur, based on falsified evidence.

What you read in print, may not always be correct. For Sean "Diddy" Combs, this statement is certainly true. "An Attack on Tupac Shakur Launched a Hip-Hop War," was written, connecting the superstar with the nonfatal shooting of Tupac Shakur in 1994, based on falsified evidence that is no longer credible. According to E! News, this slandering article stated that three contacts of Combs's orchestrated a physical attack on Tupac Shakur outside of a New York recording studio after the rapper refused overtures to sign on with Combs's famous Bad Boy Records.

However, after discovering that the evidence was fabricated, the Times issued a front-page apology as well as a promise to launch a full investigation of the situation. When Diddy was interviewed by Ryan Seacrest, he stated firmly to E! News, "This needs to be clear how wrong they were." Despite a retraction of all the implications "suggesting that Combs was given advance knowledge of the assault on Shakur," is it too late to undo the damage the Times has caused?

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