Dan Rather

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Dan Rather
Employer CBS News

• Description of His Offense
• Rather was accused of basing his interview
  questions to George W. Bush upon fraudulent
  documents.  The authenticity of the documents,
  which Rather thought were the makings of Bushs
  former National Guard lieutenant, was heavily
  debated.  The document did turn out to be the
  opinion of the lieutenant author, not concrete
  fact. 
• His/Her Punishment
• The venerable Rather did not lose his job
  immediately.  He refused to resign because he
  thought he was innocent of fraud, but he was then
  reassigned and eventually stepped down.  However
  he still retains respect in the world of
  journalism and currently has his own television
  show.  

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Janet Cooke
Employer The Washington Post

• Description of His Offense Won a Pulitzer Prize
  for a series, Jimmys World, on an 8 year-old
  heroin addict when pressed to reveal his/her
  sources, claimed that drug dealers would kill
  him/her.
• His Punishment Resigned in disgrace was forced
  to return her Pulitzer Prize

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James Forlong
Employer Sky News

• Description of His Offense
• He faked footage of a submarine firing missiles
  during the war in Iraq
• Footage was taken from a library archive or video
  clips and he reported when his actual ship was
  tied up at port
• His/Her Punishment
•  He was forced to resign and in less than three
  months later he hung himself

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Mike Barnicle
Employer Columnist at Boston Globe

• Description of His Offense
• First column contained unattributed material from
  1997 book Brain Droppings by George Carlin
• Second column contained a fabricated story about
  a friendship between two boys who were cancer
  patients at Childrens Hospital in Boston
• His/Her Punishment
• Suspended from first column
• Forced to resign after second column

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Employer Arizona Republic

• Description of His Offense
• His/Her Punishment
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• Description of His Offense
• Quoting sources that were not credible and faking
  some of her sources by using a name such as
  Jennifer Morgan. The private investigators
  that were hired to find her sources were not able
  to find them therefore giving away her
  credibility of her columns.
•  She left her job at the Republic.
• She went on to become President and CEO of
  AmericanLatino.net which is a website that is
  devoted to Hispanic news and issues

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Jack Kelley
Employer USA TODAY (newspaper) Crime
Fabrication of hundreds of articles and quotes,
paid people to lie for him/scripted what they
should say, lied in speeches Most famous crime
used a photo he took of a Cuban hotel worker
to make up a story about a woman who died
fleeting Cuba by boat Punishment resigned from
his position after admitting to his crimes.
Investigations began after he resigned that
showed he fabricated many stories.
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Stephen Glass
Employer The New Republic, an editorial
magazine

• Description of His Offense
• Wrote at least 27 fabricated articles using false
  sources, events, and quotes
• Story that got him caught was about a 15 year old
  computer hacker, hired by a large companies to
  hack their security system to point out flaws.
• Adam Penenberg, a Forbes journalist discovered
  and proved the story was false.
• His/Her Punishment
• Fired from The New Republic
• Went on to graduate law school and apologize to
  his former employers. 
• Blue Steel

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Jason Blair
Employer New York Times

• Description of His Offense
• Caught plagiarizing and fabricating elements of
  his stories in 2003
• He made colleagues believe he was on location
  when he was actually in his New York apartment
• Covered various stories ranging from the DC
  sniper and the Iraq War
• Used photos to create accurate impressions
• 36 of his 73 national news articles were
  suspected of foul play
• His/Her Punishment
•  He resigned from The Times

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A) Boston Globe
Employer
B) Newspaper
C) She admitted to fabricating people and quotes
in four columns in 1998.
D) Fired, or asked to resign, from column writing
at the Boston Globe. She was humiliated, lost
respect from her readers, peers, and friends. She
also lost the honor from winning the Pulitzer
Prize.
Patricia Smith
"From time to time in my metro column, to create
the desired impact or slam home a alient point, I
attributed quotes to people who didn't exist, -
Smith
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