Posted on 05/19/2005 7:55:23 AM PDT by Cool Chick
Will the Real News Fabricator Please Stand Up? May 19, 2005 By Debbie Schlussel
The Detroit News and its star reporter, David Shepardson, got caught with their pants down. They ran a fake story.
But no-one noticed. No-one, except me—which lead to Detroit News Editor and Publisher Mark Silverman and his minions racing to hush the story and bury it, looking for some silent way to cover-up their very large, very exposed rears.
They printed Shepardson’s phony story about a terrorist, and I exposed it, last week. Shepardson ran with it, without even a modicum of fact-checking (easily done with a quick phone call to local Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) spokesman, Greg Palmore).
But no-one noticed.
The rest of Detroit and America’s journalism community was obsessed with other false information, some more innocuous and all less deliberate and agenda-infused.
First, there was the Detroit Free Press, competitor to The Detroit News (and partner in its joint operating agreement). Star columnist, sportswriter, author, and radio host Albom was caught in April, writing about basketball players who said they’d attend their alma mater’s game in the NCAA playoffs. They didn’t show up, and Albom’s pre-written, rushed column ended up being wrong.
The hysteria to lynch the very successful, media-ubiquitous Albom was incredible. But a Free Press investigation was done, and Albom was cleared—after a near-anal exam investigation showed no other falsehoods, but some unattributed and altered quotes.
Some Free Press reporters and a whole lot of other journalists around the country are angry at what they call “the Mitch Albom treatment.” They claim he got off easy.
Unfortunately, the biggest gloaters are the rival Detroit News and its own fabricator, star reporter David Shepardson. Incredibly, there was no “Mitch Albom treatment,” no apology to readers, no suspension . . . .
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Jack "Death to the NRA" Lesenberry of the Metro Times used to also be the VP for my local paper(which almost openly advocates for dems despite being in a 60% GOP county). The joke around here is that the endorsement of the paper is the kiss of death, election time.
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