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	pyratejenni 2003-05-18 06:43 pm UTC (link)
	Mmm... I don't think so. It's not fannish, and it's not particularly wanky. Except for the "troubled young man." I listened to the Talk of the Nation show on Blair, and the comments about what could have "driven" him to do this made me want to scream. He knew what he was doing was wrong. He didn't care. Nothing drove him but his own ego. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	asilvahalo 2003-05-18 06:57 pm UTC (link)
	The article isn't wanky, but the situation certainly is. imho. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	iczer6 2003-05-18 10:31 pm UTC (link)
	For me the TRUE wank was the survey they forced you to fill out if you wanted to read the article. As for Blair he's a jackass that's all I have to say. Icz (Reply to this)(Parent)

lasayla
2003-05-18 06:47 pm UTC (link)

It ain't fandom wank if that's what you're asking.

Also was anybody else wigged by the use of the word it in the tenth paragraph? I can't work out if they're referring to the family as a single unit or trying to protect the identity of the dead person, but it makes them look like they're calling the corpse an 'it'. Which may be technically true, but is also sort of nasty.

Oh and if it's that easy to falsify expense accounts, I need me a job at the New York Times, yo'.

Hmmm. I wonder if the Times covered this story...

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	asilvahalo 2003-05-18 06:56 pm UTC (link)
	yes, the times did cover it, but you had to pay to get the full story online. (Reply to this)(Parent)

marythefan
2003-05-18 07:45 pm UTC (link)

Also was anybody else wigged by the use of the word it in the tenth paragraph? I can't work out if they're referring to the family as a single unit or trying to protect the identity of the dead person, but it makes them look like they're calling the corpse an 'it'.

It's a reference to the family. "Family" is a collective noun, so to be gramatically correct, it takes a singular pronoun. Although I'd have gotten around the awkardness of it by using "family members," which would have allowed the use of "they."

/wank

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	stalin 2003-05-19 12:08 am UTC (link)
	Call me cynical, but is this really such a surprise? I thought smoking, drinking, falsifying expense accounts and making up stories was all in a day's work for a reporter. How times change. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	soleta 2003-05-19 12:52 am UTC (link)
	thus why he went unpunished for so long. I think it was the plagarism that got him. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Actually hakainokami 2003-05-22 05:15 am UTC (link)
	The best part was that he wasn't fired, he resigned. Wouldn't it be nice if all the fandom plagerizers did that, I mean they are kinda annoying. (Reply to this)