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Hoaxed: Did Eco-Terrorists Chop Down Elle's Green Issue? |
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Written by Robbie Daw
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Thursday, 24 April 2008 |
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They may have been going for green, but the publishers of Elle just might be seeing a shade of red, now.
If we're to go by the following faux retraction, emblazoned upon a sticker that was slapped into a growing number of copies of Elle's new issue, either a radical eco group or a staunch capitalist nut just might be to blame for the vandalism of the publication's third annual green issue.
According to "green gossip" blog Ecorazzi, here's the message that's on the sticker, which was attached over the first page of an article titled "The Believers":
“Following consultation with federal agencies, we at Elle wish to retract this article. Not because of the stream of factual inaccuracies beginning in the second sentence (there has never been a CrimethInc. convergence in Athens, Georgia), but because in the current political climate it is irresponsible to even pretend to give a fair hearing to radical anti-capitalists. Even if Anna’s story is a cut-and-dried case of entrapment, we have to understand this as a necessary defense of our free market freedoms. Not to say that we are not concerned about the environment at Elle. On the contrary, the global environmental crisis offers unprecedented opportunities to promote sustainable fashions (p. 98), give the meat industry a makeover (p. 245), and renew faith in this country’s discredited electoral process (p. 104); even the color green itself is making a comeback (p. 72). Consumer capitalism may be threatening life on earth, but there’s simply no other option—that is, not unless you’re willing to join the ranks of the eco-terrorists.”
Copies of the hoaxed issue seem to be popping up in stores nationwide, according to comments on sites where this story is reported. A spokesperson for Hachette Filipacchi Media, which publishes Elle, told FolioMag.com that the incident is under investigation.
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