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Topic: Cape Cod Times says reporter fabricated sources in dozens of stories |
Cape Cod Times says reporter fabricated sources in dozens of stories
NBC, by James Eng
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Posted By:Calvinesq, 12/5/2012 4:00:17 PM
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| A Massachusetts daily newspaper apologized to its readers after an internal investigation concluded that a veteran reporter wrote dozens of stories that included people who don’t exist. The Cape Cod Times said Karen Jeffrey, 59, a writer for the Times since 1981, “admitted to fabricating people in some of these articles and giving some others false names.” In a column published Tuesday titled “An apology to our readers,” Publisher Peter Meyer and Editor Paul Pronovost wrote:
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Comments: Nothing like a good fabrication. MSM has been doing that for Obama for years. This, however, indicates a talent that could only be learned in journalism school.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Attila DiMedici, 12/5/2012 4:04:05 PM (No. 9050384)
So, we can expect this reporter to be working for the NYT shortly.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
QRP, 12/5/2012 4:06:33 PM (No. 9050388)
Do you believe anything you read in the paper? How about the sports scores? Me neither.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Quigley, 12/5/2012 4:11:35 PM (No. 9050395)
This is just fine as long as the stories furthered the regime´s narrative. After all, the media would like get some bailouts too!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
BaseballFan, 12/5/2012 4:24:17 PM (No. 9050403)
Haaaa! Yeah, right. Their ´sacred role´ is to tell the truth. I laugh in their general direction! They forgot the ´Obama caveat´, which means, "if we don´t report it, it´s because it might reflect negatively on ´The Won´".
Spare me. They´re in the same league as the NYTimes, WaPo, etc.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
pearlyjo, 12/5/2012 4:25:22 PM (No. 9050406)
FTA:"Papers have personalities, and no two are exactly alike, but at the end of the day, facts are facts. And a good newspaper holds nothing more sacred than its role to tell the truth. Always. As fully and as fairly as possible. This is our guiding principle, so it is with heavy heart that we tell you the Cape Cod Times has broken that trust."
Ha ha ha, stop it! You´re making my sides ache! Ha, ha! That´s a good one.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
MattMusson, 12/5/2012 4:35:44 PM (No. 9050418)
Woodward and Bernstein won a pulitzer for doing the same thing. They even had the Hutzpuh to write themselves starring roles in their story. And, people believed it.
Deepthroat? Yeah, right.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
noddy, 12/5/2012 4:44:25 PM (No. 9050428)
Perhaps #1. But that would only be a brief stepping-stone to presidential speech writer for Obama.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
jdh, 12/5/2012 5:09:59 PM (No. 9050463)
If you want to be an attorney, doctor, electrician, general contractor, plumber, asbestos remover, etc, you have to be tested and certified. If you want to be a journalist, you need a pencil or a tape recorder...
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
sinic, 12/5/2012 5:30:51 PM (No. 9050488)
The Mrs., the kids, and I lived on Cape Cod for almost 20 years and subscribed to this rag for the whole tour...don´t even remember her. Probably because the rag had such a leftwing slant in everything...from the front page to the editorial page...we skipped over most of the "hard hitting" stuff. Fact is, we read it solely for the ads, sports scores, local news (slanted left wherever possible), and the classifieds. The local paper (The Falmouth Enterprise) was so leftwing we couldn´t stomach it. Saul Alinsky would´ve loved it.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
earlybird, 12/5/2012 5:41:02 PM (No. 9050500)
How exciting can it be there? Sounds as though she just tried to liven things up a bit. She should try a novel...
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Susannah, 12/5/2012 5:49:27 PM (No. 9050508)
Like the majority of Mass. papers, the CCT endorsed Romney and Brown this time around. (The Daily Kos was very angry at them for so doing.) Not that it mattered, ultimately. But it is interesting that so many ordinarily left-leaning Mass. papers endorsed the two Republicans, stating that Obama had been a flop as president.
It still disturbs me that so many liberal papers around the country endorsed Romney. And yet Obama won.
This woman got away with faking it for so long she probably thought she´d never get caught. Sooner or later, they always do.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
leopardtwo, 12/5/2012 6:12:56 PM (No. 9050538)
Jeffrey also reported that a former Mass. Senator drove a car off a bridge with a woman inside it and abandoned her to drown, that a Mass. Senator who became President was a notorious fornicator, and that this President and his married brother had wild carousals with a famous movie star. Oh. Wait. That was all true! Never mind.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
mominNoCA, 12/5/2012 6:21:58 PM (No. 9050550)
The Obama White House spin team will give her a call soon.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
daisey, 12/5/2012 6:24:21 PM (No. 9050552)
Weren´t the characters in Barry´s book composites and events were as he remembered them. In other words, he lied alot, and embellished even more, to make himself look noble and brilliant and "deep". He is considered a literary genius. What´s the difference between him and someone who makes up characters?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Libertygal, 12/5/2012 6:50:04 PM (No. 9050573)
Leaves one to wonder, since they are "removing" (read scrubbing) her articles from the web, how many stroked the presidential epeen leading up to the election.
Wonder how long they will be retained in google cache and the wayback machine?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
skedaddle, 12/5/2012 7:00:01 PM (No. 9050582)
Politicians and "journalists" are having a hard time adjusting to the internet and the easy availability of information. Typical lazy leftist.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Heraclitus, 12/5/2012 7:37:09 PM (No. 9050630)
She will now write important biographies and works of history and be featured regularly on NPR and PBS.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
vesicant, 12/5/2012 8:57:05 PM (No. 9050703)
And in related news, the Sun comes up in the East.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
BruisedOrange, 12/5/2012 10:23:39 PM (No. 9050769)
Who does this lady think she is... the official Reagan biographer?
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Trigger2, 12/6/2012 6:05:01 AM (No. 9050997)
A reporter fabricating stories...I thought fabrication was a mandatory course in J-school.
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