St. Paul Pioneer Press (MN) - April 28, 1997
COVER ALL THE ANGLES AT THE GREAT MANKATO PYRAMID
1) The 'real' Mankato, Minn.Ready for a thrill? Visit Mankato,
Minnesota's vacation mecca. Attractions include the Great Mankato Pyramid,
the Underwater City, the Fuhrer Putz Underbot Verks Submarine Docks and,
most notably, the Farr/Sclare Fissure that spews steam and keeps the city
warm in the winter......No, not really, you gullible Netizen. Let this be a lesson:
You can't believe everything you read on the Internet.Don Descy, a...
2. EclectEcon - August 30, 2007
To What Extent Should Ignorant People Be Protected From Themselves?
Aug. 30, 2007 ( EclectEcon delivered by Newstex) -- Phil Miller recently
linked to this story in the Mankato, Minnesota, Free Press telling of some people
who visited Mankato, hoping to see pyramids and do some whale-watching. They had
been duped or misled by this website, which was created by a Mankato professor,
purportedly to illustrate to his students that they should not accept as truth
everything they see on the internet. For me, it's just plain funny to read about the Mankato...
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3. Philadelphia Daily News (PA) - August 21, 2003
Finding paradise in Minnesota, Visit Mankato on the Web it's a town that's
almost too good to be true
TRUTH BE told, I'd never been anyplace quite like Mankato, Minn.,
before. But I spent some time this summer in a fascinating, surprising diversion
there.And I owe it all to the Internet. Trying to figure out where to spend
some time, I was aimed by an acquaintance to the Mankato, Minn., home page
(lme.mnsu.edu/mankato/mankato.html), a site that emanates from Minnesota State
University, based in that town in the southern part of the state.Tired of sites hyping all...
4. Star Tribune: Newspaper of the Twin Cities - March 8, 1999
Mankato Web page tells a whale of a tale, The New York Times reported on the
bogus site - a few years after other media. It was created by a Mankato State
professor as a lesson in skepticism.
A fictional Internet Web site that describes Mankato, Minn., as a
tropical paradise was featured last week in a New York Times story about why
information on the Net can't always be trusted. "Whales in the Minnesota River?"
the Times headline asked. "Only on the Web, where skepticism is a required
navigational aid." The story went on to say that, "On the World Wide Web, straight
facts can be hard to...