Letter to editor, with French twist

The New York Times admitted that it published a fake letter purportedly from the mayor of Paris criticizing Caroline Kennedy’s Senate bid as “appalling” and “not very democratic.”

“What title has Ms. Kennedy to pretend to Hillary Clinton’s seat?” the letter said. “We French can only see a dynastic move of the vanishing Kennedy clan in the very country of the Bill of Rights.”

In an editor’s note posted on its website, the Times said: “We have already expressed our regrets to [the mayor’s] office and we are now doing the same to you, our readers.”