'Yoo Arrested In Italy': ABC News Reporter Falls For April Fools Prank

Media Bistro:

The latest victim of the inevitable collision between the instantaneous internet and the April Fool's joke is ABC's Jake Tapper. [...]

So, Tapper jumped on ABC's internal news distribution system early this morning to alert the network that former Justice Department lawyer John C. Yoo-- the author of controversial Bush Administration policy memos after 9/11-- had been arrested in Italy for "war crimes."

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