Laphamization Edit Meaning

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Giving a dramatic eyewitness report of an event that hasn't happened yet. Laphamizers get busted either when the event goes down differently than reported or the article goes to print before the event happens.

Named after notorious journalistic fabulist -- or talented psychic -- Louis Lapham.

Barbara Stewart's description of that seal hunt was graphic and bloody. Too bad the seal hunt was cancelled. That Laphamization ended her career.

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