Mon. View Shattered Glass/Get all work in
Wed. Finish Shattered Glass, discuss
Work on Ch. 6 packets
PLEASE POST YOUR RESEARCH ABOUT JOURNALISTS WHO FABRICATED STORIES
Fri. Activity in groups TYPES OF LEADS
HMWK: Do activity 6.1 in Ch. 6
Here is what I found out about Jayson Blair, and James Frey. :
ReplyDeleteJames Frey wrote a book called a Million Little Pieces who was supposed to be a memoir written by James Frey on his on his battle with his addictions to illegal substances. He was on Oprah, and Oprah herself confronted James Frey for fabricating his book and publishing it as a memoir. She was personally offended because she was a huge fan of this book, and she decided to confront him on her show.
Jayson Blair was also writing for The New York Times and he fabricated and plagiarized much of his work for the newspaper.
In the April 19, 2003, his piece "In Military Wards, Questions and Fears From the Wounded", Blair described interviewing four injured soldiers in a naval hospital. He never went to the hospital and only spoke to one soldier on the phone, to whom he later attributed made-up quotes. Blair wrote that the soldier "will most likely limp the rest of his life and need to use a cane," which was untrue. He said another soldier had lost his right leg when it had only been amputated below the knee. He described two soldiers as being in the hospital at the same time, when in fact they were admitted five days apart. (Copied this from Wikipedia.) Among other stories he plagiarized from other newspapers, and fabricated quotes and information.
-Whitney Lora 10.21.09
Janet Cooke won a Pulitzer for a fraudulent story about a child addicted to heroin. This story earned her a Pulitzer which she returned after it was found to be fictitious. The boy mentioned in the story could not be tracked down and it was found that his entire existence was fabricated. Other scandals included Jayson Blair of the New York times, who was accused of plagarism. James Frey embarressed Oprah with his highly fabricated story that Oprah endorsed, which was found to be largly untrue.
ReplyDeleteJanet Cooke- wrote in the Washington Post. An article called Jimmy's World was about a 8 yr old heroin addict. She recieved a Pulitzer prize for a feature writer. Article caught many people attention, the mayor sent an all out search for the boy but it was unsuccessful which proved the article fake
ReplyDelete[Information from Wikipedia about Jayson Blair] On April 28, 2003, Blair received a call from Times national editor Jim Roberts, asking him about similarities between a story he had written two days earlier[6] and one written by San Antonio Express-News reporter Macarena Hernandez on April 18.[7] Hernandez had a summer internship at The Times years earlier, and had worked alongside Blair. She contacted The Times after details and quotes in Blair's story appeared exactly the same as in hers.
ReplyDeleteJack Kelley fabricated substantial portions of at least 8 major stories, lifted nearly two dozen quotes and other materials competeing from publication, lied in speeches he gave to the newspaper, and mislead the investegators on his reports.
ReplyDeleteJames Frey wrote a memoir called “A Million Little Pieces” about a struggling alcoholic and drug addict who made it through a rehabilitation twelve steps program. The book was featured in Oprah’s Book Club Selection and James Frey was a guest on the show. Oprah was very upset when she found out that James Frey fabricated information in the novel like going through a root canal with out Novocain.
ReplyDeleteJayson Blair plagiarized stories for the New York Times in April 2003 after being promoted several times. He then accused New York Times of racism in his book Burning Down My Masters' House: My Life at New York Times.
Janet Cooke: In an article titled Jimmy's World, which appeared in the Post on September 29, 1980, Cooke wrote a gripping profile of the life of an eight-year-old heroin addict. She described the "needle marks freckling the baby-smooth skin of his thin, brown arms." The story engendered much sympathy among readers, including Marion Barry, then mayor of Washington, D.C. He and other city officials organized an all-out police search for the boy, which was unsuccessful and led to claims that the story was fraudulent. Barry claimed that Jimmy was known to the city and receiving treatment.(copied from Wikipedia)
James Frey, Jayson Blair, Jack Kelley.
ReplyDeletejack kelly made faek stories about 1,400. He stole some peoples quotes and made up "facts." The Daily Pennsylvanian said that Stephen Glass gotehired by Rolling Stone to write an artical about illegal drugs.
ReplyDeleteJames Frey Jayson Blair Janet Cooke Judith miller
ReplyDelete1. Bush Administration Payment of Columnists
ReplyDeleteApparently, the Bush administration paid off PUBLIC funds to right-wing newspaper companies in order to promote some of his newest policies in 2005.
2. Carl Cameron, Fox News Channel (2004)
This only reinforces my whole "FOX is corrupt" belief. The reporter, Carl Cameron, fabricated articles about John Kerry during the 2004 Presidential Elections, claiming that he was "effeminate" and received "pre-debate manicures".
The liberal Sacremento Queen Bee, Diane Griego Erwin, stepped down from her three times a week column after her supervisor found that she was unable to support 43 of the sources in her column. In the last twelve years an additional 13 cases were found in 10 of Erwin's other columns.
ReplyDeleteJenee' Skinner
A chinese reporter named Xinhua when he reported steamed buns were contaminated because they were filled with cardboard. Jayson Blair lied or plagirized the work of others in dozens of stories when he wrote the New York Times, he recreated many events as if he was there when he really was not. Judith Miller went to jail for 85 days for not givig up the name of a source .
ReplyDeleteHassan Fattah wrote about his interview in March 2006, with an iraqi who clamed he was the hooded and wired man from the infamous Abu Ghraib picture, and was later questioned by the U.S military, and the internet magazine "Salon". He admitted to not doing enough research on the mans identity, and he was not the man from the prison picture.
ReplyDeleteJames Frey wrote a fabricated and exaggerated memoir.
ReplyDeleteJayson Blair plagiarized and fabricated several pieces for the Times, and resigned. He wrote a memoir calling the times racist and blaming his fabrication on drugs and mental disease.
Jack Kelley fabricated at least eight major foreign articles and resigned.
Jack Kelley was a former-USATODAY, who plagerized and fabricated almost 1,400 stories in his 21 years of working there.
ReplyDeleteStephen Glass was a former writer for the New Republic was fabricated and plagerized more than 35 of his articles.
Jayson Blair a former writer for the New York Times. Blair, fabricated 36 of the 73 national news stories he had written were suspect.