# is this a real news story or faked ad ?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-real-news-story-or-faked-ad/765038>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 4, 2016, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-real-news-story-or-faked-ad/765038 "2016-09-04T18:52:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2016, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-real-news-story-or-faked-ad/765038/1 "2016-09-04T18:52:02Z")

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this was presented as a msn linked news story but I think its an a ad but my question is why would the website the story is on let them do this ?

[http://www.tmz-web.com/g1/v1/vibe/th-01a/inq.php](http://www.tmz-web.com/g1/v1/vibe/th-01a/inq.php)

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**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2016, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-real-news-story-or-faked-ad/765038/2 "2016-09-04T18:56:05Z")

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probably fake, that’s not even TMZ’s website.

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**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2016, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-real-news-story-or-faked-ad/765038/3 "2016-09-04T19:03:23Z")

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I was just checking but as skeezy as tmzs real site appears to be I wondered if they just got paid for them doing that