The blurbs were attributed to an actual newspaper - The Ridgefield Press, a Connecticut weekly that by all accounts had nothing to do with the deception.

Mr. Manning is not a film critic with The Ridgefield Press, as the ad claimed.

The Ridgefield Press of Ridgefield, Connecticut (7,296 - oldest paper in the chain, established in 1875)

New York, and Tallahassee, Florida: Ridgefield Press, 1992.

He first started writing professionally for his hometown newspaper, The Ridgefield Press, at age 14, covering high school sports.

"It broke us up," she said in the interview with The Ridgefield Press.

Manning was credited to The Ridgefield Press, a small Connecticut weekly.

The Ridgefield Press is an American weekly newspaper published each Thursday for Ridgefield, Connecticut.

The fictitious film critic David Manning was supposedly writing for the Ridgefield Press.

Last December, for example, The Ridgefield Press was filled with letters of outrage about a seven-foot sculpted baby erected in front of the museum building.