Chuck Philips

This week's big media story was undoubtedly the Los Angeles Times' erroneous report that alleged Sean “Diddy” Combs and his posse were responsible for a 1994 attack on Tupac Shakur outside the Quad Recording Studio in New York. The report, by Pulitzer Prize winner Chuck Philips, which first appeared on LATimes.com on March 17 along with several supposed F.B.I. documents implicating Combs, immediately prompted an investigation by The Smoking Gun, which determined that the documents—and the information they contained—were false.  read more »