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USA Today editor quits, scandal brews
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Posted on 04/20/2004 4:31:22 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Edited on 04/29/2004 2:04:14 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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NEW YORK (CNN) - The editor of USA Today resigned Tuesday, one day after the newspaper reported that a team of its journalists had found "strong evidence" that Jack Kelley, one of its former star reporters, made up portions of stories, plagiarized and lied.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ccrm; fabrication; jackkelley; mcpaper; ooooooohprettycolors; plagiarism; resignation; usatoday
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worthless newspaper anyway.....
To: Sub-Driver
House of Babble is crumbling. Im thinking you can only lie to people for so long before you lose. Takes longer than Id like but lets watch em fall like dirty dominoes!
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posted on
04/20/2004 4:35:22 PM PDT
by
samadams2000
(Liberalism is communism one drink at a time)
To: Sub-Driver
This kind of stuff sure makes you question what the news folk report. Print, radio, and t.v. news, they all lie to try to sell advertising and make money.
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posted on
04/20/2004 4:37:05 PM PDT
by
Joe Boucher
(G.W. Bush in 2004)
To: Sub-Driver
worthless newspaper anyway..... Yep - It's a newspaper for the sheeple, that substitutes real news with bright pictures, colors, and worthless polls.
To: Sub-Driver
I don't get it.
Jurgensen's taking the fall for one of her reporters?
If Kelley did the plagiarizing and stuff, why is Jurgensen resigning ?
Sure, she should have been more suspicious, but why is she resigning?
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posted on
04/20/2004 4:44:16 PM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
I'm curious to know which articles/stories Jack Kelly fabricated...
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posted on
04/20/2004 4:45:28 PM PDT
by
oolatec
To: oolatec
I notice that McPaper is a little less than forthcoming on precisely what the fabricated stories were.
Probably something that we'll be happy to hear was nothing more than an alarmist invention.
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posted on
04/20/2004 4:48:03 PM PDT
by
The KG9 Kid
(Semper Fi)
To: Izzy Dunne
Perhaps she and Kelley are cashing in on the Jason Blair Phenomenon: admit you're a plagiarist and a fraud and then rake in the big bucks with book and movie contracts, while become a talk show and liberal social circle celebrity.
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posted on
04/20/2004 4:49:07 PM PDT
by
SpyGuy
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
It actually is indicative of the decline of the 4th estate.
Since reporters ceased reporting the facts, in order to win awards and acclaim, they fabricate stories.
I blame this on the liberal media. Facts are no longer relevant. This guy probably pissed someone off.
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posted on
04/20/2004 4:49:41 PM PDT
by
EQAndyBuzz
(60 Senate seats changes America. Who is your Senator?)
To: Sub-Driver; an amused spectator; Timesink; Grampa Dave; Liz
Schadenfreude
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posted on
04/20/2004 4:50:04 PM PDT
by
martin_fierro
(A v v n c v l v s M a x i m v s)
To: Sub-Driver
What kind of stories did he make up?
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posted on
04/20/2004 4:51:05 PM PDT
by
thoughtomator
(Mahmoud Zahar, step right up! You're the next contestant on "Who wants to field test a Hellfire?")
To: The KG9 Kid
Just hope it wasn't the sports section!
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posted on
04/20/2004 4:51:18 PM PDT
by
donozark
((I fought in the Kimchi Valley...but I don't like to talk about it))
To: Sub-Driver
Asked about the role of Kelley in Jurgensen's resignation, spokesman Steve Anderson said, "You're going to have to read into it what you're going to have to read into it. Unfortunately, my hands are constrained at this time as to what I can say."
Awww, that's so cute . . . he knows sign language.
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posted on
04/20/2004 4:51:22 PM PDT
by
Xenalyte
(I may not agree with your bumper sticker, but I shall defend to the death your right to stick it)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
As a side note...they have a great sports section.
To: Sub-Driver
Another coffin in the nail of today's media empire. That's excellent.
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posted on
04/20/2004 4:58:00 PM PDT
by
lawgirl
(God to womankind: "Here's Cary Grant. Now don't tell me I never gave you anything.")
To: Sub-Driver
You know, I was just about to post links from the latest issue of American Journalism Review, which features Karen Jurgensen on the cover with the headline "How Good is USA Today?", along with the title of another piece called "Jack Kelly and the Truth". However, for some strange reason, their website is down at this time.
To: Joe Boucher
Will someone please post an article notifying me when the press prints something truthful and acurate ?
Finding examples of plagarism and bias in the press is like shooting fish in a barrel ;-)
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posted on
04/20/2004 5:01:58 PM PDT
by
festus
To: NeonKnight
As a side note...they have a great sports section...... and purty colored maps.
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posted on
04/20/2004 5:02:24 PM PDT
by
SeeRushToldU_So
(Where is my tuxedo? I want to look the part.)
To: martin_fierro; thoughtomator; Timesink; *CCRM; governsleastgovernsbest; reformed_democrat; ...
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posted on
04/20/2004 5:09:38 PM PDT
by
an amused spectator
(Kristen Breitweiser didn't want to learn how to land the 9/11 Commission; she only wanted to steer)
To: donozark
I believe they became suspicious when he reported that Ohio State Defeated FSU in the Rose Bowl this year. The score he reported (OSU 742, FSU 0)is what made them a bit doubtful of his veracity!
He, he, he--
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