Cyrus Farivar

He has a B.A. in Political Economy from the University Of California, Berkeley and a M.S. from the Columbia University Graduate School Of Journalism . He has written for '' The Economist '', '' The New York Times , Popular Mechanics , Wired , Wired News , Slate , Mobile '' magazine, ''Playlist Magazine, Oakland City Magazine, Business 2.0 '', '' The San Mateo Daily Journal , MacAddict '', '' The Age '' (Australia), and '' The Daily Californian '', the UC Berkeley student newspaper. He also freelances for '' The World (radio Program) ''.

Farivar gained a modicum of Internet-based notoriety in August 2005 from a piece in the online magazine Slate in which he details his own participation in Debunking "greenlighting" (a fictitious practice presented as fact in an attempt to fool the news media into covering it).

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