NationStates Jolt Archive

A Boston Globe freelance writer fabricated large chunks of a story published this week, the newspaper said on Friday in the latest incident to embarrass the U.S. media.

The Globe, which is owned by The New York Times Co., said it stopped using writer Barbara Stewart because of a story that ran on Wednesday about a seasonal hunt for baby seals off Newfoundland -- a hunt, it turns out, had not taken place.

The story datelined Halifax, Nova Scotia described in graphic detail how the seal hunt began on Tuesday, with water turning red as hunters on some 300 boats shot harp seal cubs "by the hundreds."

I think you should recheck this.
Since I live in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and well, no such news broadcast happened.

I think you should recheck this.
Since I live in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and well, no such news broadcast happened.
You do know his post stated that it didn't happen, right?

hmm, perhaps this should be taken as a signal that papers should actually employ journalists rather than outsourcing to freelancers. imagine, news agencies with actual reporters, with time and funding to investigate stories. oh wait, that'd be expensive and the profit margins are much higher on purchasing outside people's stories, passing along corporate pr, and regurgitating government talking points. never mind then.

You do know his post stated that it didn't happen, right?

And here I read it as the fake story was shown here in Halifax, I'm well aware that the event didn't actually happen.

And here I read it as the fake story was shown here in Halifax, I'm well aware that the event didn't actually happen.
Oh, I misunderstood your misunderstanding.
Sorry about that!
:D

Barbara Stewart, what apropriate innitials for a reporter like her.

I posted this because I think that the "fake story" is now the regular thing at the New York Times and Boston Globe.

Don't they check anything anymore? Or is it now OK to publish a story about an event that never happened?

*sighs*

OK ill bite

what does dobbs town have to do with this thread?

OK ill bite

what does dobbs town have to do with this thread?

Someone last week was ranting about the seal hunting, and Dobbs Town took them to task for interfering on a subject they knew nothing about.

Looks like the New York Times and the Boston Globe, in the interest of "political correctness" just made up a gruesome story - about a subject they knew nothing about.

Par for the course.

hmmmm
interesting
so you saw no need to link to this thread or refer to it in any way
and you find that the boston globe being stupid damns dobbs town in what way?

I just wish Legs'd left me out of this one. We'll see. Soon enough, Arammanar will be here ranting about habeus corpus or something...