Joi Ito's Web: Woman racing through Chernobyl a fraud?

If this is true, it's rather quite sad. It still sounds like the pics are real. That makes the whole "is it a fraud or not" question strange. Certainly she was there, and she's in a couple of the pictures likely meaning someone else was there. And certainly there was no problem going to various locations. And the bike is featured in some pictures, just not "in deep" ones. And she doesn't actually talk about the bike in those, either.

So, if the pictures were real and she was really there, perhaps the bike part was a mis-communication or mis-translation and she only took a bike as far as she could? Of course, the front page implies something else. And who knows if the source calling it a fraud isn't a fraud itself?

The story can be found here.

Posted by Shane on May 26, 2004 12:58 PM | Permalink