Projo Website Posts Fake News Article Mocking Infanticide, Alzheimer's

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The Providence Journal this week transitioned to a new website, and one major error has already been spotted.  An article posted January 20, 2015, and entitled "Mother Cooks Son, Puts TV Dinner to Bed" is clearly  a fake news article.  While articles like this are common for satirical publications, such a The Onion, we are talking about the four-time Pulitzer Prize winning Providence Journal with a circulation of 100,000. 

This article is currently (at time of press)  still live on their website. (UPDATE: At 3:12 PM, the Providence Journal finally removed the article.) 

The article tells a fake account of a Cranston stripper who mistakenly placed her 5-month old son in the microwave, and tucked her Swanson TV dinner into bed.  The article even includes an attempted humorous quote:

"It should have been a tipoff when Daydream had a metallic taste when I kissed him goodnight," said the 26-year-old exotic dancer.

Even worse, the article's byline is attributed to a fictional writer, AL Zymers -- a clear parody of Alzheimer's Disease, the 6th leading cause of death in the United States.

While it can be assumed that this article was a sample article used for testing the new site layout, it is clearly a major oversight and in exceptionally poor taste for this article to be live on its site at present time. 

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Mother cooks son, puts TV dinner to bed
It was a bad day in the Mecurio household.

CRANSTON - We all get confused.But for Maria Mercurio, of 450 Pontiac Ave., a little disorientation turned tragic Tuesday when she returned home and confused her bright-eyed 5-month-old son, Daydream, with a Swanson's turkey and gravy TV dinner."It should have been a tipoff when Daydream had a metallic taste when I kissed him goodnight," said 26-year-old exotic dancer.

Attempts to reach the Providence Journal for comment were not immediately returned.

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