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Newspaper editor loses job over using Caddyshack quotes in golf story
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| 07/07/03
| AP
Posted on 07/07/2003 12:22:24 PM PDT by Pikamax
Monday, July 7
Editor loses job over 'Caddyshack' embellishment
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Associated Press
ROSWELL, N.M. -- The sports editor of the Roswell Daily Record has been fired for fabricating part of a news story about a golf tournament in which he quoted a fictional character from the movie "Caddyshack."
Gregory M. Jones was dismissed by the Daily Record on June 17, the day after his article about a Father's Day golf tournament at the Roswell Country Club appeared on the sports page, editor Mike Bush said.
"He got a bunch of scores and wanted to make it more interesting," Bush said Thursday. He said he did not know if Jones attended the tournament.
He said the newspaper insists on accuracy and objectivity and "we don't tolerate anything less than that."
Jones, 24, said he was shocked by his firing and did not intend to deceive his editors or readers.
"It was tongue-in-cheek. It was sports. I was trying to be light and breezy. I was trying to put out a story that people might like to read," he said in a telephone interview.
Jones was hired in July 2002 as a reporter, was promoted to state-business editor in November and became sports editor in April.
Bush said the story contained three fictitious paragraphs referring to a Carl Spangler who claimed to work at the course. In "Caddyshack," Bill Murray played a golf course worker named Carl Spackler.
Jones quoted Spangler as saying he invented a new kind of grass for the tournament. The quotation in Jones' story is taken directly from "Caddyshack."
"'This is a hybrid ... of bluegrass, Kentucky bluegrass, featherbed bent and northern California sensemilia (sic),' Spangler said. 'The amazing stuff about this, is that you can play 36 holes on it in the afternoon, take it home and just get stoned to the bejeezus-belt that night on the stuff."'
Bush said the Daily Record received "a couple of complaints" about the story. The newspaper ran a correction.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: New Mexico
KEYWORDS: caddyshack; fabrication; golf; newspapers
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To: Chancellor Palpatine
Last time I saw a mouth like that it had a hook in it!
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07/07/2003 1:30:28 PM PDT
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Laura Earl
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To: Constitution Day
"What knockers!" Oops, wrong movie.
To: Chancellor Palpatine
Do you know your Slapshot trivia at all? I have to put that ahead the Producers..
To: Chancellor Palpatine
I am going unopposed here.....
It's easy to grin
When your ship comes in
And you've got the stock market beat.
But the man worthwhile,
Is the man who can smile,
When his shorts aren't too tight in the seat.
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posted on
07/07/2003 1:32:57 PM PDT
by
Feiny
(Well, I got a lot of stuff on order. You know... credit trouble)
To: Chancellor Palpatine
A fonzanoon is a person who farts in the bathtub and bites the bubbles.
126
posted on
07/07/2003 1:35:29 PM PDT
by
Feiny
(Thank you very little!)
To: lorrainer
I'll slack you off, you fuzzy little foreigner.
127
posted on
07/07/2003 1:37:21 PM PDT
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Feiny
(Yeah, you're lean, mean, and I bet you're not too far in between are ya?)
To: lulabelle
And tell the cook this is low grade dogfood.
128
posted on
07/07/2003 1:39:25 PM PDT
by
Feiny
(I've had better food at the ballgame, you know?)
To: Michael.SF.
He also headlined at the Moulin Rouge and commanded higher ticket prices then Sarah Bernhardt Tough choice seing a guy pass wind at candles or seeing Sarah Bernhardt's monumental beauty.
129
posted on
07/07/2003 1:41:06 PM PDT
by
oyez
(Does Time-Warner suckorwhat?)
To: Chancellor Palpatine
Animal House
Caddyshack
Easy Money
Bachelor Party
Blazing Saddles (though the wife fails to see the humor)
National Lampoons Vacation (the first and Christmas Vacation - all others sucked big time)
Airplane
Meatballs
Up the Creek (can't find it anywhere)
130
posted on
07/07/2003 1:46:49 PM PDT
by
IYAS9YAS
(Go Fast, Turn Left!)
To: IYAS9YAS
That list of movies? Shirley, you jest.
To: IYAS9YAS
Nice list... Mine's bigger.
To: colorado tanker
...and don't call me Shirley.
133
posted on
07/07/2003 1:50:51 PM PDT
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Laura Earl
(A good day at the beach is better than the best day at work.)
To: habs4ever
I think he broke his ******' neck!
134
posted on
07/07/2003 1:52:26 PM PDT
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IYAS9YAS
(Go Fast, Turn Left!)
To: feinswinesuksass
You'll get nothing - and like it!
To: feinswinesuksass
Ohhhhh, Mrs. Luebner...you're a tramp...
To: IYAS9YAS
Up the creek had Tim Matheson and the guy who played Flounder, right?
To: Pikamax
Fire a guy for being clever and funny. . .must be liberals in charge because we all know liberals have no sense of humor.
To: Chancellor Palpatine
CANNONBALL!!!
139
posted on
07/07/2003 2:08:50 PM PDT
by
Feiny
(You two look like a couple of boobs!)
To: Chancellor Palpatine
Flounder certainly, I'm not sure on Matheson, but you may be right. It's been at least 12 years since I've seen the movie. I just thought it was pretty funny.
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07/07/2003 2:21:44 PM PDT
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IYAS9YAS
(Go Fast, Turn Left!)
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