[FreedomCalls]

Stewart could not immediately be reached for comment.

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."

[Raycpa]

"It was stupider and more boring and more flat out dumb on my part.

I wouldn't let my children use grammer like that.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

She had a premature report-ulation

[Bob]

"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.

A few simple yes/no questions for this purported "journalist":

Were you actually there or did you pretend to be there?

Did you actually see the scene or did you make it up?

Did you pass the article off to the newspaper as if it were true?

She did exactly what she claims she didn't do.