[NU Sports] Columnists and accuracy

[John A. DeGroat]

I'm from Detroit originally and still read the Free Press online to 
follow the Lions and the Tigers which probably confirms that I'm 
masochistic.  But anyway, I think Mark is right, Albom should have been  
bounced; it was probably too expensive to do that.  Albom thinks that he 
is more than a sports writer which goes to prove that Dirty Harry was 
right when he said, "A  man hs to know his limitations".

John DeGroat

Mark S. Ament wrote:

> As I recall the Mitch Albom matter, he filed a column about a game he 
> didn't attend but failed to make the distinction that he wasn't there 
> - leaving the reader with the distinct impression that he was, in 
> fact, there.  A bit more than fudging his facts I think.  Frankly, I 
> was surprised he kept his job after pulling that.
>
>
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> Ben Adler wrote:
>
>> Mike Nolan <nolan at romaine.tssi.com> wrote:  But this gets back to an 
>> old subject: Are columnists expected to uphold
>> the same levels of journalistic accuracy and standards as other 
>> writers on staff?Absolutely.  At least, they should be, and at most 
>> responsible journalism outlets, they are.
>>    For example, among the commentary guidelines of the NPR station I 
>> work at:
>>  "The commentator must be able to support all statements with facts 
>> and/or sources that meet KAZU editorial standards."
>>    Also, didn't Mitch Albom nearly lose his column (and his job) at 
>> one of the Detroit newspapers a few months back for fudging his facts?
>>
>>
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