Picture Albom
Sportwriter, radio host and bestselling author Mitch Albom got in trouble recently. In writing a piece for the Detroit Free Press with a few days lead time, he (incorrectly) described things--using the past tense--that had yet to happen.
Some have called for his head. Other have at least demanded suspension without pay. But it looks like he'll weather the storm. Some worry it's because he's too big to fail.
Personally, I don't see what the big deal is. As Albom puts it, "Nobody's perfect."
By the way, wasn't yesterday's American Idol amazing?!
posted by LAGuy @ 1:17 AM
3 Comments:
First he is definitely getting a break because he is too big, (and the subject or importance thereof of his offence was rather small). Still I think that this kind of dishonesty should be a bigger deal. The whole thing about a journalist is telling us what happened. We need to be able to trust that they will do this. What one person saw versus another can certainly be colored by their view points (bias) and we have come to expect a certain amount of this. But making stuff up because it is plausibly what will happen is bad. The other thing is that he initially blamed it on the athletes who ratted him out. Not cool.
I missed the joke the first time. Not completely, I knew the reference to Idol was a joke, but, not having a TV, it doesn't register with me what day it is supposed to be on and I didn't see the faux blogger date.
Unfortunately, Blogger's going to destroy the humor because it sorts things by date, so that after tomorrow (May 5) this post will appear just where it is supposed to. Future historians (unlike past historians) will be puzzled.
It turns Mitch actually met with Morrie on Wednesdays and he just said it was on Tuesdays.
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