SilverNRed Posted May 13, 2005 Posted May 13, 2005 Link When people ask me why I have almost no respect for journalists, it's because the ones that are supposedly the best (or at least the ones getting awards) are the same ones caught fabricating stories years later. A member of a Pulitzer Prize winning team resigned from The Sacramento Bee amid an investigation into whether she fabricated some of the people she mentioned in several recent columns, the newspaper said. Diana Griego Erwin came under suspicion more than two weeks ago, when an editor raised questions about inadequate sourcing in one of her columns, Executive Editor Rick Rodriguez wrote in Thursday's editions. The column wasn't published and the newspaper launched an inquiry, Rodriguez wrote in the space usually reserved for Griego Erwin's three-day-a-week column. "During our inquiry we found we could not authenticate the existence of several people even though they were identified by name, age and sometimes by the neighborhoods in which they were reported to have lived," Rodriguez said. "When asked to provide confirmation ... she was unable to do so to our satisfaction." Journalism does not attract the best people.
Kelly the Dog Posted May 13, 2005 Posted May 13, 2005 Journalism does not attract the best people. 335743[/snapback] Oh, right, like all the stuff we love the most does? Sports. Politics. Big Business. Porn. Beautiful women. Religion. Shall I go on?
Gavin in Va Beach Posted May 13, 2005 Posted May 13, 2005 Oh, right, like all the stuff we love the most does? Sports. Politics. Big Business. Porn. Beautiful women. Religion. Shall I go on? 335758[/snapback] What does attact the best people? Are there any left? I bet there are and they all live in Iowa, part of some perfect community, laughing at the rest of us. Bastards.
Kelly the Dog Posted May 13, 2005 Posted May 13, 2005 What does attact the best people? Are there any left? I bet there are and they all live in Iowa, part of some perfect community, laughing at the rest of us. Bastards. 335761[/snapback] Gambling. Bars. Our own extended families. This place. Hollywood. The music industry. Good God, these places are infested with the very best people.
Pine Barrens Mafia Posted May 13, 2005 Posted May 13, 2005 Gambling. Bars. Our own extended families. This place. Hollywood. The music industry. Good God, these places are infested with the very best people. 335780[/snapback] I'm pretty sure you can scratch Hollywood off that list. I'd say that the very best people are in the military, serving in the name of freedom.
Kelly the Dog Posted May 13, 2005 Posted May 13, 2005 I'm pretty sure you can scratch Hollywood off that list. I'd say that the very best people are in the military, serving in the name of freedom. 335784[/snapback] I meant that these places you don't find the very best people.
Ghost of BiB Posted May 13, 2005 Posted May 13, 2005 What does attact the best people? Are there any left? I bet there are and they all live in Iowa, part of some perfect community, laughing at the rest of us. Bastards. 335761[/snapback] What Iowa? Didn't you get the memo?
Ghost of BiB Posted May 13, 2005 Posted May 13, 2005 What does attact the best people? Are there any left? I bet there are and they all live in Iowa, part of some perfect community, laughing at the rest of us. Bastards. 335761[/snapback] I work with some of the finest people I have ever met. Good people, and very professional. Dot the I's and cross the t's. Fun to be around, but deadly serious in their work. Be glad they are out there.
SilverNRed Posted May 13, 2005 Author Posted May 13, 2005 Oh, right, like all the stuff we love the most does? Sports. Politics. Big Business. Porn. Beautiful women. Religion. Shall I go on? 335758[/snapback] Engineering. Medicine. Education. Military. Ho hum....
Reuben Gant Posted May 13, 2005 Posted May 13, 2005 Generally speaking, Fire Departments attract the best people.
Kelly the Dog Posted May 13, 2005 Posted May 13, 2005 Engineering.Medicine. Education. Military. Ho hum.... 335845[/snapback] That's just a gross exaggeration though, that journalism doesn't attract the best people. The link you provided was one woman who won a Pulitzer (as part of a team not an individual award) 20 years ago. There are numerous Pulitzer prizes awarded every year and frankly, I don't see a whole lot of winners turning out to be bad people. Sure a few are frauds but a small, small percentage. I am a writer and I know a lot of writers and most of them are great people. Sure, it's a cut-throat business, and writers often have to scratch and claw, but there are great and awful people in all professions.
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