Fake, fake, fake

I wonder if we’ll see his fakeness on page one, above the fold now that it is clear he is a fake.

Ron Harris asks, Why did the press swallow Massey’s stories?.

Editors at some papers look back at the Massey articles and are surprised that they ran them without examining whether the claims were true or without ever asking the Marine Corps about them.

“I’m looking at the story and going, ‘Why, why would we have run this without getting another side of the story?'” said Lois Wilson, managing editor of the Star Gazette in Elmira, N.Y.

David Holwerk, editorial page editor for The Sacramento Bee, said he thought the newspaper handled its story, a question and answer interview with Massey, poorly.

“I feel fairly confident that we did not subject this to the rigorous scrutiny that we should have or to which we would subject it today,” he said.
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“We’re not stenographers, we’re journalists,” Dixon said. “What separates journalism from other forms of writing is that we practice the craft of verification. By not doing that, that’s saying they’re abdicating any responsibility from exercising news judgment.”

Parks said the journalist’s responsibilities when covering someone who makes allegations while speaking in a public forum can be different from those when seeking an interview with an accuser.

“Still, if the person making the allegation has spoken at a public forum, and the audience has heard it, the obligation of the reporter remains to get the other side.”

Hmmmm. What an interesting concept.