Credits

In this week’s KC Strip, local blogger Heidi is credited with being the first to debunk the Pitch prank.

Heidi Schallberg, operator of the smart blog "Me, My Life + Infrastructure," found soon after our paper hit the streets last Wednesday that it took almost no time at all to Google our cover story to shreds.

Although Heidi was first to write that the story was obviously a fake and didn’t take much investigation to expose, it’s still impressive that a local blogger brought the facts when so many others (like me) had been easily fooled and city officials were feverishly scurrying to calm readers who had been duped.

But then again, little of this journalistic drama mattered to the masses, who only read the Pitch in order to find phone numbers of women willing to provide a “massage.”