NYT (and me by proxy, sorta) get TRickrolled

According to FishBowlNY, the NYT's piece on the Rickrolling of an Eastern Washington University hoops game a few weeks ago was apparently based on, er, some dubious evidence. In other words, some guy made it all up.  I cited the NYT's story in my RickRoll piece from yesterday, and even watched the video, so no fair playing the neener game, but ...

If the video was really the only source for the story, that might be classified as a bit of an oopsie, not just because everything on the Internet is a hoax until proven otherwise, but because the video indeed looks like it was heavily edited, set to music, etc -- not a document but a piece of entertainment. 

And so it was ...