Summary
USA Today has been publishing fabricated feature stories for years,
thanks to the deceptions of journalist Jack Kelley. According to the
Associated Press, Kelley fabricated stories, and then schemed with
interview subjects to lie about his work to other reporters attempting
to investigate. It's yet another example of the astonishing lack of
ethics in our national media. When reporters at the New York Times and
USA Today basically just make up their stories, what sort of trust can
the public have in the mainstream press? In fact, the public should have
very little trust. As we've seen since 9/11, the mainstream media in the
United States is primarily a White House propaganda machine. Fox News
and CNN, in particular, seem to be nothing more than tabloid trash TV
shows that regurgitate whatever pro-war propaganda the White House is
spewing that day. Jack Kelley, by the way, was nominated five times
for the Pulitzer Prize. One year, he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist,
based on a story he apparently just made up. Even the highest prize for
journalism, it seems, is not immune to fraud. Let's face it:
journalism in the U.S. sucks. With notable exceptions -- like WIRED and
the San Francisco Chronicle -- the U.S. press seems to have forgotten
about journalism ethics and, instead, aimed for the highest ratings.
That's why we see so much coverage of Michael Jackson, for example: it's
meaningless news, but it gets high ratings. With this latest
discovery of fraud at USA Today, the national paper joins the ranks of
all the other papers and news networks that have been caught making up
stories and misleading the public. Our national media is, quite frankly,
shameful. It's one reason why so many people read this site. Here, you
get the real story and honest opinion, not some so-called "objective"
story that's really just pro-war propaganda or trash entertainment
parading as real news.
Original source:
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040319/D81DGNKO2.html
Details
- After spending seven weeks closely examining Kelley's work, a team of
journalists also found that Kelley had lifted quotes or other material
from competing publications, lied in speeches he delivered for USA Today
and conspired to mislead the investigation into his work.
- An examination of his computer unearthed scripts Kelley had written to
help at least three people mislead reporters attempting to verify his
work, the newspaper said.
- For a story in 2000, the newspaper said, Kelley used a snapshot he
took of a Cuban hotel worker to authenticate a tale he made up about a
woman who died fleeing Cuba by boat.
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