[Dont Mention the War]

Jayson Blair, your date is here.

[Dont Mention the War]

Schadenfreude ping

[Straight Vermonter]

I heard she was going steady with Dan Rather.

[Redgirl]

I wonder if she'll fake it with him.

[Right Wing Assault]

"Making up people and attributing unimportant quotes to them is a lot easier than getting up off your butt and finding real people", according to Bill Smith, bartender in NYC. Smith also revealed that, "I make up stories to tell to my customers in the bar, so I don't see a problem with it."

In other news, Ed Jones, a cabdriver in Chicago, said, "I think they should lock up Kofi Annan and his numbnut son."

[SamAdams76]

I've always wondered...how many columnists write their columns in a darkened bar, making up stories about make believe people as they sip beer all day?

[cricket]

I take it, that Delio is a . . .ahhhh. . .a Liberal(?)

[martin_fierro]

"I don't understand why my credibility and career is now hanging solely on finding minor sources that contributed color quotes to stories I filed months and years ago"

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[weegee]

Wired is another of the publications that doesn't like FR linking to their articles.

Ever notice how those media sources that make stuff up don't like getting caught in the act???

[Incorrigible]

Some of Michelle's articles:

Carly's Way (Hungarian Immigrant Engineer Describes HP Under Carly)

RIAA's Rosen Sets Sights on ISPs

The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Athens Double-Barreled Cannon (April, 1862) - Feb. 14th, 2005
 

Finding New Life on an Old Road

Kenyan 9/11 Gift Update-FR Thanks to be Read to Masai Tribesmen, New Yorkers want the Cows in U.S.

Do Privacy Fears Allow Terrorism?

Terror Turns Real for Horror Site

[bert]

The American press is now mostly women who find Journalism to be a career that will let them earn some money and make a difference. They are hired because they will work cheap.

We have learned from the left over and over that guilt doesn't matter, it's the seriousness of the charges. Such is the credo.... truth doesn't matter when making a difference.

These young women, even those in the boondocks writing for a very local readership routinely fabricate what ever they need to make the piece conform to some preconcieved notion. It should not be assumed that promotion to a larger publication with national scope will change the methods.

Local editors who don't really edit are responsible. The only goal is to slow deminiishing readership rate and fluffing a story is ok if it makes it more interesting.

[Criminal Number 18F]

If you follow the "Carly's Way" story linked in this thread, MIT Technology Review has pulled it with a note that they could not document it.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F