[SittinYonder]

Newspapers, which are unlike any other industry anywhere in terms of management and operations, make room for lazy and unaccountable people. It should come as no surprise when this sort of thing happens.

[ClearCase_guy]

"This inquiry came at the end of a six-month string of personal crises in my life," Griego Erwin told The Times in an e-mail, "and, frankly, I didn't have the emotional reserve to answer The Bee's questions quickly enough."

I'm a victim. Have pity on me. I can't be held to normal standards.

[Rodney King]

The things is, what percentage of these people are actually caughts? The newspapers all act like these are one-off cases. More likely these people learned from their colleagues and predecessors who to right a good story in a short period of time without working to hard i.e. making stuff up.

[sergeantdave]

The stable of so-called journalists writing in major city dailies has been infested by fiction writers for years.

Instead of newspapers naming themselves the Daily News, the Enquirer, etc., names better reflecting what they are would be: The Philadelphia Grapes of Wrath. Or the Chicago It Takes a Village. And the New York Das Kapital & Jonathan Seagull.

[WL-law]

Those familiar with the situation said Griego Erwin could not provide more details to confirm the identities of an unnamed bar and a bartender who she had quoted in the man-on-the-street-style column. The piece was held from its normal spot on the front of the newspaper's Metro section on Sunday, April 24. It ran two days later — rewritten and with the suspect elements removed, two people familiar with the process said. They spoke on condition of anonymity. Bee editors reviewed several other recent Griego Erwin columns, and said that in ab

It sounds EXACTLY like the type of fake "color" quotes that got Mike Barnacle fired from the Boston Globe, years ago.

The savvy, ironic, local insight quotes that were the staple of Barnacle's stories were just made-up whole cloth by Barnacle, it turned out, as many readers had suspected for a long time.

[Fog Nozzle]

Her method of reporting must be one of the requirements to win a Pulitzer.

[bandleader]

"Because of Questions About The Veracity of Their Reporting"?If this were true,they would be AWASH in "Pink Slips"!

[lowbridge]

bump

[F16Fighter]

Was there no Opus? ;-)

[river rat]

Didn't I read somewhere that the average GPA of students admitted to "Journalism Schools" was lower as a group than those admitted to "Teaching Schools"....

What would you expect?

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