This liar, er, reporterette, apparently never saw a baby seal bloodfest. So her vivid imagination with some chemical help created the baby seal bloodfest.
Why cover the story when you can stay at home and make it up? Jason Blair knows about that convenience.
Here's her side of the story (denial is more than just a river):
Premature Journalism
Barbara Stewart, the Boston Globe freelancer dropped over her story about a Canadian seal hunt that had not yet taken place, says she never meant to deceive anyone. She just never checked back to learn that the scheduled hunt had been delayed by bad weather."The whole situation, while resulting from an egregious, massive, stupid [screwup] on my part, unbelievable carelessness, was nevertheless not malicious fabrication as in: pretending I was there and deliberately making up a whole scene and attempting to pass it off," Stewart says by e-mail.
"It was stupider and more boring and more flat out dumb on my part. Quite dumb. Remarkably dumb. But not vicious and not really a scandal, for heaven's sake."