Posted on 07/19/2005 2:35:11 PM PDT by CHARLITE
As more comes to light about Diane Griego Erwin, the former Sacramento Bee columnist, the more revealing and instructive the story becomes. It is a story we mentioned in a recent Media Monitor, but much more has come to light. In one sense, it is another validation for the New Media, specifically the blogs; and for another, it shines a light on problems related to diversity in the newsrooms, when diversity strictly refers to skin color.
It also spells potential big trouble for the Sacramento Bee editor, Rick Rodriguez, the new president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE). How could he have been oblivious to her pattern of falsehoods? Didn't anybody fact-check her material before now? Was Rodriguez an "enabler" in this fraud?
Rodriguez says in his article that from January 1, 2004 through April 26, 2005, her last column for the paper, they found 30 names from 27 columns out of 171 she had written, that could not be verified. They then went back further. She had been there 12 years, and they found an additional 13 cases in 10 more columns.
He described the typical template for her apparent deceptions: "essays, often with a surprising O'Henry twist, about a singular person who faces a challenge and surmounts it." They generally were based on a theme taken from current headlines. But apparently no one was asking questions.
(Excerpt) Read more at aim.org ...
Yet another blow for the MSM.
I'm shocked, I tell you! SHOCKED!
I'm not LOL!!
These stories, like the CBS forgeries, are "factual even if false" and can be used to support any aspect of the media's ultra-left wing, progressive extremist agenda.
What this country needs is more and greater diversity. Then EVERY institution will be as inspirational as King-Drew hospital in Los Angeles. (You can look it up.)
I worked in the newspaper business for 46 years, serving as a beat reporter, court and police reporter, investigative reporter, editor and columnist. The first day I went to work an old editor told me there were two rules in the business: (1) you never make up your own facts and (2) prima donnas should seek other lines of work. We are seeing too much of creative writing and reporting these days, and the MSM is overflowing with partisan prima donnas. Journalism is in a sad state in this country. There are too many people with personal agendas working in the big city papers, the major networks and news magazines, and in their warped worlds the facts be damned.
Mark
Well-put!
I think you're thinking of the Fresno Bee.
Same (Manson-like) family, different child.
Dan
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