Today’s Practical Journalism Tip: If You’re Going to Fabricate an Interview, Don’t Do It With a Real Local Official
From the Richmond Times-Dispatch:
A Times-Dispatch article published May 17 about the reaction in Herndon to President Bush’s speech on immigration reported a fabricated interview …
Northern Virginia bureau reporter Paul Bradley did not interview Bill Threlkeld, site director for Project Hope and Harmony, as reported in the article…
Bradley was dismissed yesterday as a Times-Dispatch employee.
That’s the equivalent of the burglar who gets stuck in the chimney.
I must ask: Are journalists getting lazy or stupid?
In fairness to journalists, their screwups are more public than those of most cubicle-dwellers…