Former Daily Egyptian editor says he was an 'idiot'(MOABA -Mo. of All Barf Alerts!)

The Southern ^ | 27 Aug 05 | By Meta Minton,

[.cnI redruM]

I somehow doubt he was really THAT stupid.....

[atomicpossum]

"Who's going to want to hire me after this?"

Someone's got to pick up Jaysun Blair's job...

[.cnI redruM]

"Would those be curly fries or regular?"

[Rodney King]

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?

[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.

[threeleftsmakearight]

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?

[.cnI redruM]

I guess he's not smart enough to work at Pizza Slut either.

[patriot_wes]

"He claims he was "an idiot." Who's gonne hire me now?

NYT

[.cnI redruM]

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....

[Izzy Dunne]

"I was a sportswriter. I didn't know," he said.

Nine years of high school down the drain...

[threeleftsmakearight]

I get that much...
I just don't understand MSM's angle.

[frogjerk]

In the edition, the student newspaper published a front-page apology under the headline, "To all, we deeply regret our error."

Some error!

[taxesareforever]

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.

[.cnI redruM]

And another six of college. They sent their boy and their money off to Lunkhead State and all they got was a quarterback.

[frogjerk]

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."

[wideawake]

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.

[sharkhawk]

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?

[.cnI redruM]

The whole truth isn't out on this one.

[frogjerk]

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.

[wildcatf4f3]

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".