Many people will answer the call to punk someone today, and journalists will be among them. Newspaper reporters have a history of journeying into the fictional realm on April Fools' Day. Sometimes it works—hint: ask Tom Tancredo (Westword [2])—but it can be an embarrassing failure, as many college journalists have learned throughout the years (Campus Overload [3]). The young staffers of Overland High School's The Scout weren't joking when they attempted to publish the cause of a fellow student's death, but they've nevertheless found themselves facing censorship—or at least allegations of it—drawing the attention of the ACLU (Westword [4]).

Former Glenwood Springs waiter Damian Cardone may soon need a lawyer, as well, if the Colorado attorney general files a civil lawsuit over Cardone's gluten-free-hating online rant, which has since been removed after a nationwide backlash from sufferers of celiac disease (Post Independent [5]).