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USA Today Says Reporter Faked Stories (Jack Kelley)
Associated Press ^
| Mar 19, 10:03 AM (ET)
| staff
Posted on 03/19/2004 11:47:22 AM PST by VadeRetro
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) - USA Today said Friday that an examination of the work of journalist Jack Kelley found strong evidence that the newspaper's former star foreign correspondent had fabricated substantial portions of at least eight major stories.
"As an institution, we failed our readers by not recognizing Jack Kelley's problems. For that I apologize," publisher Craig Moon said.
After spending seven weeks closely examining Kelley's work, a team of journalists also found that Kelley had lifted quotes or other material from competing publications, lied in speeches he delivered for USA Today and conspired to mislead the investigation into his work.
An examination of his computer unearthed scripts Kelley had written to help at least three people mislead reporters attempting to verify his work, the newspaper said.
For a story in 2000, the newspaper said, Kelley used a snapshot he took of a Cuban hotel worker to authenticate a tale he made up about a woman who died fleeing Cuba by boat. The woman in the published photo never fled by boat, and a USA Today reporter located her alive this month, the newspaper said.
Kelley, 43, quit the newspaper in January after admitting he conspired with a translator to mislead editors looking into the veracity of his reporting.
Kelly said he'd never fabricated or plagiarized.
"I feel like I'm being set up," he told editors at the newspaper on Thursday.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fake; jackkelley; usatoday
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posted on
03/19/2004 11:47:23 AM PST
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VadeRetro
To: VadeRetro
"I feel like I'm being set up," he told editors at the newspaper on Thursday.
No, your articles were "set up." You'll probably be "let go."
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posted on
03/19/2004 11:50:48 AM PST
by
anonymous_user
(Politics is show business for ugly people.)
To: VadeRetro
Hmmmmmmm, maybe journalists aren't as honest as I had thought. Wow.
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posted on
03/19/2004 11:53:52 AM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(You can see it coming like a train on a track.)
To: anonymous_user
That's Kelley with two "e"s, not this guy.
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posted on
03/19/2004 11:54:47 AM PST
by
VadeRetro
To: ClearCase_guy
As the article makes clear, Kelley's a pretty big name in journalism. A bigger story than Jason Blair, or should be.
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posted on
03/19/2004 11:55:55 AM PST
by
VadeRetro
To: anonymous_user
What a great career move! If he follows the Jayson Blair example, next will come a book deal and various public appearances. Honest objective journalism is so boring and old fashioned.
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posted on
03/19/2004 11:58:10 AM PST
by
GBA
To: VadeRetro
I began to have my doubts about him when he wrote that story about space aliens stealing all of the cheese in Milan.
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posted on
03/19/2004 11:58:50 AM PST
by
Redcloak
("Aye...And if my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a wagon." -Capt. Montgomery Scott, Starfleet, ret.)
To: VadeRetro
Does this admission place him in contention with Jayson Blair for a Nobel Prize for journalism?
To: VadeRetro
Jayson Blair's already got the "whitey made me do it" excuse copyrighted, so what's Kelley going to use?
}:-)4
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posted on
03/19/2004 11:59:49 AM PST
by
Moose4
(This is not a "war of ideas." It is a war of life and death.)
To: leprechaun9
Not journalism, but he's in the running for the Fiction prize.
To: VadeRetro
Anybody have any other info on this guy? His political leanings, the issues he likes to write about? Just curious.
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posted on
03/19/2004 12:03:36 PM PST
by
Paradox
(I really have no clue, I just like the sound of my typing.)
To: Paradox; All
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posted on
03/19/2004 12:08:49 PM PST
by
JoJo Gunn
(Intellectuals exist only if you believe they do. ©)
To: VadeRetro
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posted on
03/19/2004 12:10:10 PM PST
by
NonValueAdded
(He says "Bring it on!!" Then when you do, he says, "How dare you!! ")
To: VadeRetro; Alouette; Salem; SJackson
To: Slings and Arrows
Also posted here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1101430/posts You had me going there. ;)
To: Slings and Arrows
This story is of interest to Israelphiles because Kelley is the fellow who wrote a story about Jewish terrorists taking revenge on Palestinians - a story that IMRA was unable to verify. One of the stories questioned was about a Jewish vigilante:
The newspaper also said "the evidence strongly contradicted" other published accounts by Kelley: that he spent the night with Egyptian terrorists in 1997; met a vigilante Jewish settler named Avi Shapiro in 2001; ...
To: VadeRetro; Alouette; Salem; SJackson
To: VadeRetro
That's the one. Link to the story in my original post.
To: Slings and Arrows; Admin Moderator
Arrrggghhhh!!! Dupe thread notice.
Mea culpa.
To: VadeRetro
Every time a freeper posts without searching, a kitten dies.
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