Black backers turn out to be Frank prank

Frank magazine cleverly hornswoggled Conrad Black and a good part of the media by keeping a hoax website supportlordblack up and running and making news for more than a month. It revealed its prank in the current issue (sub req'd to read online). According to Patricia Best's column in the Globe and Mail, the Globe was one outlet which was taken in; others were New York magazine, the National Post