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I read the original article,

acanuck — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 05:17:09 +0000

In reply to Wow! That's hilarious. They

I read the original article, and Gawker misquoted it. So Slack gets a pass on that.

But Slack actually has some

acanuck — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 05:15:18 +0000

But Slack actually has some claim to MSM experience -- eight years as Washington reporter for the Boston Globe, if I recall correctly. That's nothing to sniff at.

Wow! That's hilarious. They

Ramona — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:13:00 +0000

In reply to Politico's Blog of Epic Fail

Wow! That's hilarious. They must be desperate for on-the-spot reporters. And they must be short of editors. Besides being embarrassingly wrong, this sentence doesn't even make sense.

Behind the stage where he will speak today are two flags: an American one, as usual, and right alongside it -- and a flag for the local union, Wisconsin 1848.

I think one of the trends

artappraiser — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:18:10 +0000

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I think one of the trends becoming clear is that the internet media organizations only hire rookies, it's a revolving door of low paid rookies. It's like an internship world, where the good ones that stand out are soon snatched up by the traditional media. In that way, traditional media still rules--you still get more accuracy and quality for your reading time in traditional media. It's kinda ironic that Gawker, long infamous for low paid intro jobs, where they also have to grind out a lot of copy, is one of those making a big thing about this.

In reporter Donovan Slack's

acanuck — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:10:24 +0000

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In reporter Donovan Slack's defence, Wisconsin's state flag is ugly enough to have been designed by a union committee. (And I say this having been on a few union committees.)

But no, there's no excuse for failing to verify the fact that you choose as the lead for your story. Slack is not a rookie, but that's a rookie mistake.