Third Wave Dave interviewed serial newspaper fabricator Diana Griego Erwin's editor Dorothy Korber. Read about it here. There are some good links within Dave's post that are not to be overlooked.
Simply put, Erwin (in an earlier post, I misspelled her last name, I'm sure she didn't mind), is the Jayson Blair of California. There are a few differences, the biggest is that Diana wrote human interest columns, Blair was a field reporter. But to reiterate, what they had in common is they made stuff up, lots of stuff.
This is from last Sunday's Sacramento Bee, free registration required.
Many of the columns in question fit a template: essays, often with a surprising O. Henry twist, about a singular person who faces a challenge and surmounts it. Their stories frequently reflect a theme taken from current headlines - wildfires, for example, or prison brutality, school shootings, murderous road rage or a high-profile trial.
Dave wonders out loud why this story doesn't have more MSM "legs." I don't have an answer for him. On the other hand, since the mainstream media overlooks stories such as this one, or the East St. Louis vote fraud scandal, then that only gives bloggers likes us a greater amount of fresh material to work with each day.
Oh yes, hold off on that hate mail: I know each link within the above click-thru leads to the Belleville News-Democrat, an MSM publication--they did a fabulous job in covering the vote fraud case. But 300 miles north of East St. Louis, the Chicago mainstream media largely ignored that story. Yet with those paid-voters, their election day choices in St. Clair County counted just as much as my vote here up in Cook County. Scandalous.
And do you seriously think the New York Times had an article about the ESL "$10.00 per vote" case?
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