[wagglebee]

I think the press should create a "Dan Rather Award" for the person each year who does the most creative job of making up the news, in time it would be as big a deal as the Pulitzer.

[Swanks]

Just because they were fradulent people doesn't mean the content of what the said isn't accurate.

[inlightnd]

"Their stories frequently reflect a theme taken from current headlines – wildfires, for example, or prison brutality, school shootings, murderous road rage or a high-profile trial."


Ripped from the headlines. ;)

She should stick to fiction and stop trying to write NEWS!!
Busted!!

[afnamvet]

Erwin wrote to the Bee in a June 9 e-mail: "The story has been told and I am sad that The Bee continues to pursue this." She took issue with the continued scrutiny, saying it is undeserved, and then concluded: "Surely there are more important stories out there than another about me. I know there are. Even now, I come across them every day."

Possible help for Diana would be medicinal marijuana.

[stevem]

There are so many real stories of people that surmount obstacles day after day it should be easy enough to find them and get some bio info. Still it's understandable when a columnists decides to conjur people up out of thin air. Why go out when you can work in. Why take a chance your pulitzer potential story have an unsympathetic twist to it. That can't happen if you control it from start to finish.

Besides, if such people don't really exist, they ought to.

[blueberry12]

Columnist invents stuff

This is not uncommon nowadays.

[Made In The USA]

The 43 are probably registered democrats disenfranchised due to some right-wing conspiracy to only allow actual living persons the right to vote.

[Leo Carpathian]

She was working for me under covers. After the story was published, we executived the people.

[staytrue]

Another graduate from the Dan Rather/Jayson Blair school of journalism

[Semper Paratus]

Mike Barnicle had the same problem writing for the Boston Globe.

[fso301]

How much worse is it for the unnamed sources?

[RavenATB]

I hear she's about to complete a major work exploring newspaper journalists who are falsely accused of fabricating their stories.

[pollyannaish]

I think this happens more than even we imagine. I think every newspaper should come with a Surgeon General's warning.

Warning: Contents can be harmful to user. In studies they have been shown to cause a loss of perspective and damage one's moral compass.

[Walkingfeather]

I was getting my taxes done in Burbank today and actually picked up the LA times. It was the first time I picked up an actually newspaper in 3 to 5 years. I thumbed through it and noticed most of the stories I read on free republic within the last 72 hours. Newsprint is dead.

[sergeantdave]

She gave an important voice to people who didn't exist. These words that were never spoken by anyone will reverberate down journalism's hall, as we all remember the forlorn nobody who uttered the famous words..."Dan? Is that you?"

[Old Professer]

From this picture she looks like she will be happier from the podium.

[carlo3b]

Don't forget Stephen Glass, another up-and-coming, flawed liberal journalist, for the formally acclaimed NEW REPUBLIC... They just have no personal ethics or conscience.. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/05/07/60minutes/main552819.shtml

[carlo3b]

Don't forget Stephen Glass, another up-and-coming, flawed liberal journalist, for the formally acclaimed NEW REPUBLIC... They just have no personal ethics or conscience.. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/05/07/60minutes/main552819.shtml