David Carr (NYT): Dirty Job, but Someone Has to Do It – New York Times. Go to a nondescript office building on the East side of Manhattan, down the hall to a door already in the clutches of a fake dismembered hand, and you will find the newsroom of The Smoking Gun. The take-no-prisoners Web site at thesmokinggun.com is in the midst of spilling affidavits in a Texas polygamy case and recently pushed The Los Angeles Times to retract a major article about the murder of Tupac Shakur by pointing out that it was based on fake documents.