Elle Magazine: Retraction Or Hoax?
-reposted from infoshop news
The Crimethinc blog has a story about how someone might be “detourning” the most recent “Green” issue of Elle magazine. This is the issue previously referenced on Infoshop, which contains an interview with “Anna” — the FBI informant in Eric McDavid’s case.
This month, as every month, I tromped over to Barnes & Noble to purchase the new issue of Elle magazine. I was delighted to see that the May 2008 Elle is their third Green Issue; thanks to funding from Aveeno® [http://www.aveeno.com/legal-notice.jsp], it’s even printed on 10 percent post-consumer recycled paper. But when I opened the magazine, I discovered a sticker pasted across one of the articles.
The article in question details the recent case in which an FBI employee infiltrated a group of young radicals, pressured them to carry out illegal activity, and lured them to a bugged cabin, at which they were arrested when it appeared that they were not going to go through with her plan. Eric McDavid, one of the arrestees, was recently convicted by a divided jury and faces up 20 years in prison.
This sticker was in every single copy of the magazine in the store. Has anyone else come across this? Does anyone know whether this is really a retraction from the staff of Elle, or a hoax?
A pdf of the sticker is available here, as a point of reference. Please do not print this out and use it to sticker copies of Elle in other stores, if it turns out this is a hoax.
Elle magazine can be reached at:
subscriptions: elle@neodata.com
forums: http://forums.elle.com/
other inquiries: http://www.elle.com/aboutus/7939/contact-elle.html
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