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Former Daily Egyptian editor says he was an 'idiot'(MOABA -Mo. of All Barf Alerts!)
The Southern ^
| 27 Aug 05
| By Meta Minton,
Posted on 08/29/2005 11:24:09 AM PDT by .cnI redruM
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I somehow doubt he was really THAT stupid.....
To: .cnI redruM
"Who's going to want to hire me after this?" Someone's got to pick up Jaysun Blair's job...
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posted on
08/29/2005 11:26:43 AM PDT
by
atomicpossum
(Replies should be as pedantic as possible. I love that so much.)
To: atomicpossum
"Would those be curly fries or regular?"
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posted on
08/29/2005 11:28:23 AM PDT
by
.cnI redruM
(Congratulations to The Framers of The Iraqi Constitution!!)
To: .cnI redruM
He said he attended a 9th birthday party for Kodee at the Carbondale Pizza Hut. So did he lie, or did he actually show up at a Pizza Hut and think that he went to the girls party?
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posted on
08/29/2005 11:29:44 AM PDT
by
Rodney King
(No, we can't all just get along.)
To: .cnI redruM
The media wants him on the air to honor him.
After all, the story might have been true and that's all that matters.
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posted on
08/29/2005 11:30:33 AM PDT
by
OldFriend
(MERCY TO THE GUILTY IS CRUELTY TO THE INNOCENT ~ Adam Smith)
To: .cnI redruM
I'm not sure why the media wants him so badly.
Is he somehow going to blame Bush?
Is he a right-wing kook they want to expose?
Again, maybe I'm dense, but what's the story here?
To: Rodney King
I guess he's not smart enough to work at Pizza Slut either.
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posted on
08/29/2005 11:33:55 AM PDT
by
.cnI redruM
(Congratulations to The Framers of The Iraqi Constitution!!)
To: .cnI redruM
"
He claims he was "an idiot." Who's gonne hire me now?NYT
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posted on
08/29/2005 11:34:11 AM PDT
by
patriot_wes
(papal infallibility - a proud tradition since 1869)
To: threeleftsmakearight
Someone invented a little girl who's Dad was supposedly in Iraq. They published her letters in a college newspaper and then they held a fake funeral for the Dad and everyone involved got caught out.
This reporter could not have been THAT stupid....
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posted on
08/29/2005 11:35:22 AM PDT
by
.cnI redruM
(Congratulations to The Framers of The Iraqi Constitution!!)
To: .cnI redruM
"I was a sportswriter. I didn't know," he said. Nine years of high school down the drain...
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posted on
08/29/2005 11:35:54 AM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: .cnI redruM
I get that much...
I just don't understand MSM's angle.
To: .cnI redruM
In the edition, the student newspaper published a front-page apology under the headline, "To all, we deeply regret our error."![](http://phillips.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/222nuclear_blast.jpg)
Some error!
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posted on
08/29/2005 11:41:49 AM PDT
by
frogjerk
(LIBERALISM - Being miserable for no good reason)
To: .cnI redruM
I somehow doubt he was really THAT stupid.....Many are those who want to believe something even if there is a possibility of it being false. Rather than checking the validity of it they go on in dream land believing what they want it to be.
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posted on
08/29/2005 11:42:51 AM PDT
by
taxesareforever
(Government is running amuck)
To: Izzy Dunne
And another six of college. They sent their boy and their money off to Lunkhead State and all they got was a quarterback.
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posted on
08/29/2005 11:44:23 AM PDT
by
.cnI redruM
(Congratulations to The Framers of The Iraqi Constitution!!)
To: OldFriend
The media wants him on the air to honor him. After all, the story might have been true and that's all that matters.
The MSM will whitewash the whole episode:
DAN RATHER: "Even though the story may have stretched the truth a bit, its what's on all American's minds. Whether this president has thrust us into a war that is unjust. And this reporter doesn't mind opening the hearts and minds of the American public."
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posted on
08/29/2005 11:47:43 AM PDT
by
frogjerk
(LIBERALISM - Being miserable for no good reason)
To: .cnI redruM
I'll just point out that most journalists have no more training or professional instruction than this joker.
This is a particularly egregious example, but journalists screw up all the time by trusting fake sources - and very few of them have the apparatus that Rather had.
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posted on
08/29/2005 11:47:47 AM PDT
by
wideawake
(God bless our brave troops and their Commander in Chief)
To: taxesareforever
The woman who claimed to be the guardian, was a fellow student in one of this guys classes. After seeing pictures of the "guardian", I don't believe she was smart enough to dream this up herself. Plus, didn't anyone question why an 8 year old would be writing to a college newspaper, and why she would ask for one reporter specifically?
To: sharkhawk; taxesareforever
The whole truth isn't out on this one.
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posted on
08/29/2005 11:49:52 AM PDT
by
.cnI redruM
(Congratulations to The Framers of The Iraqi Constitution!!)
To: .cnI redruM
Whatever moves the left's agenda for power forward is warranted by them. Be it a bomb, dead American soldiers and civilians, phony National Guard documents, Stolen National Archives documents, 9/11 Ommision reports or spineless RINOs, it makes no matter. Nothing is below them exploiting for their profit.
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posted on
08/29/2005 11:51:06 AM PDT
by
frogjerk
(LIBERALISM - Being miserable for no good reason)
To: .cnI redruM
I'm stating flatly that the people who go into the news business are at best mediocre--thats at best==most of them can't pass the muster to be engineers, scientists, or artists. The adage "Those who can do and those who can't teach" should have the corollary that "Those who no one else wants - report".
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posted on
08/29/2005 11:51:38 AM PDT
by
wildcatf4f3
(this country could use a good purge)
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