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Good Thing They Have All Those Editors

Posted by Will Collier · 15 April 2005

The Boston Globe got caught making up a story about a seal hunt in Canada that didn't actually happen, and had issue a retraction and fire the freelancer who wrote it--although the story about the phony story comes from Reuters, so for all we know, the paper in question might actually have been the Birmingham News or Podunk Post.

But assuming that Reuters is accurate for a change, a question: what happened to the editors who approved it? Fact-checkers? You know, all those valuable tools (and I mean that in every sense of the word) who allegedly make Big Media "journalists" superior to us pajama types? Are they still on the payroll? And why weren't their names publicized along with that of the fired freelance reporter?

Somebody notify Alex Beam. There's print dreck in his paper.

Comments

I initially mixed up this story with the bogus "car bomb attack in Isreal" story Reuters posted yesterday. I believe that one has already disappeared from the Web but you can still track it down via Little Green Footballs as it was their lead item for Thursday. That's 2 bogus MSM stories in 2 days, which must be some type of record. I wonder what they've planned for tomorrow.

Posted by: Fred at April 15, 2005 05:25 PM

Posted by: Lynxx Pherrett at April 15, 2005 05:29 PM

TO: Stephen Green
RE: Heh....

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Fred Brown's editorial last Sunday in Denver Toast....

http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36%257E145%257E2804844,00.html

The guy, in my honest opinion, is a bozo-shill for the old media.

This story gives the lie to his claim that the old media is based in 'fact'.

I'd comment to him directly, but I can't find any way to communicate directly with him as I can with any honest blogger.

Regards,

Chuck(le)

Posted by: Chuck Pelto at April 15, 2005 05:36 PM

TO: Will Collier & Stephen Green
RE: OOoops

My apologies for the mis-attribution.

Regards,

Chuck(le)

Posted by: Chuck Pelto at April 15, 2005 05:37 PM

Agenda driven media under the guise of 'objective journalism'.
"ok, so the facts are wrong, the story's still accurate!"

Thankgod for the internet.

Posted by: TIm P at April 15, 2005 09:16 PM

The mainstream media remind me of junior high school. Truly, journalist have betrayed the country and discredited their profession. Their motto used to be, "We report, you decide." Now, they go straight to the decision. Obviously, we readers are too dumb to decide for ourselves.

Posted by: PacRim Jim at April 15, 2005 10:20 PM

Wow, fake in stories in the Boston Globe. Who'da thunk it? Next thing you know, they'll be printing fake Iraq photos or something...

Posted by: richard mcenroe at April 15, 2005 11:20 PM

Thanks to the magic of programs such as Photoshop, I wouldn't put it past them. As a professional librarian, I am aware that whenever an organization wants to tighten its financial belt, they try to let go of their professional fact-checkers (such as librarians). :-)

Posted by: Bloodthirsty Warmonger at April 16, 2005 08:22 AM

It must be the water, er maybe the scotch and water in Boston.

Teddy Kennedy is good a making sh*t up, too.

Posted by: Old Dad at April 16, 2005 09:07 AM

Now, now, let's be nice to the Boston Globe...

The fault here lies with REALITY, for failing to keep up with the paper's tight news schedule...

I suggest the Boston Globe sues not the reporter, but Reality itself.

And why not? If you honestly claim to tell the public the truth while lying to it, your grip of reality must already be tenuous at best...

(*SARCASM*)

-A.R.Yngve
http://aryngve.blogspot.com

Posted by: A.R.Yngve at April 16, 2005 09:28 AM

TO: Bloodthirsty Warmonger
RE: Anecdotal Evidence

"...whenever an organization wants to tighten its financial belt, they try to let go of their professional fact-checkers (such as librarians). :-)" -- Bloodthirsty Warmonger

I can attest to that. Denver Public Library let go of their linguist sometime between the time I talked with him on a translation issue in '96 and '04, when I went looking for him again to corroborate information he had given me back then.

Regards,

Chuck(le)

Posted by: Chuck Pelto at April 16, 2005 03:37 PM

TO: Old Dad
RE: Barbarians!

"It must be the water, er maybe the scotch and water in Boston." -- Old Dad

Who on God's good earth would dilute good scotch?

Talk about heresy! Burn them. Burn them ALL!!!!

Regards,

Chuck(le)
[I'll have another, please.]

Posted by: Chuck Pelto at April 16, 2005 03:40 PM

The NYT owns them. What do you expect?

Posted by: Rod Stanton at April 17, 2005 06:31 AM