of host kane says he staged roadside faux-philanderer stunt

A Cheatin' Heart at 99.5

Local radio host Kane of 99.5 FM said on his show Wednesday that he was responsible for engineering and perpetuating a bogus story that national media covered widely last week. Repeating a stunt that had been successful in other radio markets, Kane deployed an intern to stand by the side of Leesburg Pike near Tysons Corner with a sign announcing infidelity: "I cheated. This is my punishment." Then the young man, who called himself William Taylor, gave Kane an exclusive interview about the whole affair.

Kane (who refuses to disclose his own real name) now says he hoaxed the media as an experiment in fluff tolerance and fact-checking standards. He then proceeded on his show, and via Twitter, to criticize reporters who'd tried to fact-check the story he'd concocted to check up on fact-checking.