Breaking News: TV dinner story is a tall tale
by Bob Sassone, posted Aug 1st 2005 4:35PM
TV Squad and about 9 million other media outlets reported last week on the death of Gerry Thomas, creator of the TV dinner back in the 50s. Now comes word from The LA Times that the story is actually a hoax. Well, Thomas did die, but his story about "inventing" the TV dinner was just that, a story. Roy Rivenburg has all the details. 