By Glenn Lovell
Knight Ridder
Published on 5/5/2004
Excerpt:
McLean and Bob Steele, a teacher at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies in St. Petersburg, Fla., call the site dishonest and potentially harmful to bereaved parents. “It’s all in good fun as long as we’re in on the joke; but in this case, we’re not,” McLean says.
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