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 The Lou Tintarello Files

                        Letters to the Editor

 

Below you will find the complete files on Lou Tintarello and The Friends of Al Turi Landfill as printed in The Times Herald Record, circulation: 200,000. These letters to the editor were published over the course of seven months in 2003-2004. On this page you will find the original articles exposing the letter to the editor hoax, and on the next page you can read all the original printed Letters to the Editor written by Timothy Hull.

The Lou Tintarello files are a collection of fabricated letters actually printed by the largest Hudson Valley daily, The Times Herald Record. Timothy Hull wrote the letters to expose and illluminate the seriousness and negelct of the letters to the editors section of the newspaper. Many false characters were created with complex stories and identities that were fleashed out by Hull over time. Eventually the Times Herals Record caught on to the hoax, and the whole thing was spun as an Invader magazine project.

The authors of these letters are fictional. They are meant to be humorous yet challenging.

 

 

Printed Friday, March 19, 2004

 

Printed Saturday, March 20, 2004

 

See The Actual Letters to the Editor as Published by The Times Herald Record, as Well       as Other Local Newspapers.   

 

 The Lou Tintarello Files

  Letters to the Editor