Here is a link to a most unbiased and objective analysis of Hattogate.
As the article explains, Hattogate started on the internet where anyone
can claim to be anything they want.  So many different identities were
involved, many providing authentic sounding, "first person" accounts
which sounded mightily impressive!  Some of those involved (pro and
contra) seem to have left no trace either before or after....a detail
that is in itself interesting.  How far did it go?  In some ways the
the scam is so elaborate as to be a work of art in itself.  Because it
was constructed to press all the right buttons, lots of real people were
genuinely taken in, with no discredit to them.  In the anonymity of the
net, it's so easy to invent credentials, to form cliques, to claim
authoritative associations.  In this case there was also "emotive
marketing", to use a euphemism, which further dissuaded anyone from
looking too close.  Hattogate may be over but not its signifigance.

 http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/09/17/070917fa_fact_singer

 http://downloads.newyorker.com/mp3/070917on_audio_singer.mp3

Anne
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