Talk:Pepsi Number Fever

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It is really suspicious that the earliest reference I can find to deaths is https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/01/10/pepsis-number-fever/ from 2018, that most of the coverage of this is from the last week, and that contemporaneous sources like https://www.afr.com/politics/law-suits-and-riots-cap-pepsi-number-game-fizzer-19930729-k5hpw and https://www.csmonitor.com/1993/0818/18023.html talk about rallies and attacks (incl. a grenade attack) on trucks, but don't mention general riots (just 'outside Pepsi plants throughout the country') or deaths. Details which would definitely be newsworthy.

Not saying it's fake news, but I reckon it's a bunch of lazy journalists copying each other's work, who originally copied it from some guy's half remembered rendition.

https://www.philstar.com/cebu-news/2006/06/26/344000/sc-decides-finality-pepsi-349-case (used as a reference) in 2006 reported that "A Pepsi plant in Davao City was recently attacked by unidentified persons, who lobbed a grenade killing three persons". Not Manila, and not related to those events in the 1990s, yet it's used as a citation.


 * Reporting on this is indeed quite muddled (in particular, there's a WaPo article that conflates the two ), but the grenade attack in Manila on Feb 13, 1993 is contemporarily sourced to the Baltimore Sun . The Davao attack also happened in 1993  so I'm not sure why Philstar says "recently". I'll tweak the wording a bit, please flag if there's anything specific you think is improperly sourced. Jpatokal (talk) 08:17, 12 June 2020 (UTC)


 * I'll take that as a no, so removing the tag. Jpatokal (talk) 10:13, 13 June 2020 (UTC)

New source
This Bloomberg story has a lot of additional detail that would be worth lookin at: Jpatokal (talk) 07:30, 5 August 2020 (UTC)

Ugh number fever is the worst I heard the whole story fuck that shit 173.171.156.50 (talk) 22:44, 29 September 2023 (UTC)