Brit replicates Baltimore' s Web site to Make Fun of Mayor

The Baltimore Sun reports:

Baltimore officials are investigating a fake City Hall Web page that duped news media on both sides of the Atlantic into reporting that Mayor Sheila Dixon had chastised a high-ranking British official for comparing crime there to that in Baltimore.

British blogger and liberal political activist Alex Hilton, 33, took credit for the hoax, saying it was meant as a joke among friends as a debate raged there over comments from Conservative politician Chris Grayling that the Baltimore-based HBO drama "The Wire" had crossed over from a "work of fiction for British viewers" to a "part of real life in this country."