On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 05:23 -0500, Alexandr Romanov wrote:

No comment. Really, just no comment. http://www.pr-inside.com/andy-martin-says-that-wikipedia-and-r1636647.htm

PR-INSIDE, or as I believe they used to be, PR NEWSWIRE, will run anything. If you wanted to put on a BOFH hat you could probably get a fake press release on there about your family pet dying.

There's room for some "fun" original/investigative reporting in there. You could set up a spoof company, run some releases through them, then talk to business news editors at a few papers (some like this outfit advertise they get your PR to these people) and find out what happens to unsolicited emails from such services.