Friday, August 26, 2005
JOURNALISTS OF TOMORROW
Florida Cracker emails:
For two years a student newspaper publishes the sad letters of a little girl to her dad in Iraq. She begs him not to die. He does. They also publish her anti-war letters to President Bush. It was all a hoax. No daddy in Iraq, nothing. The reporters checked nothing for two years.
Hit the link for further links. Apparently the reporter who first wrote about the fake little girl now worries that the episode could affect his journalistic career.
UPDATE. What is it with Illinois student newspapers and bogus quotes?