"Journalist" Mike Barnicle "You people suck whatever..."
This morning on MSNBC Morning Joe in a segment about a CNBC documentary, Mike Barnicle poses a question about the role of Congress in the financial crisis. But he can't do it without fabricating quotations of members of Congress with words more likely to be heard at a Red Sox Yankees game:
"You people suck whatever......"
are the words he invented and put into the mouths of Congressmen and Congresswomen who questioned bank executives yesterday.
Two things:
- Haven't we covered this ground before with Mike Barnicle... the whole made up quotations thing, and
- Is it too much to ask that a journalist do his homework?
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Comments
Boston best and worst journalist award... and the winner is?
Isn't it time to reveal the winner of the Boston home-grown best and worst journalist award of all time?
Barnicle: BFD
From what information I've seen over the years, Barnicle's sins when he was a journalist seemed to arise from being sloppy in at least some cases. I wonder whether he just needed an editor to smack him around a bit more.
Compare to Stephen Glass, Jayson Blair, Patricia Smith, Janet Cooke, Judith Miller, and contemporary behavior of outlets like Fox News. This group is for atrocities of journalism, beyond sloppiness.
Had the Barnicle incidents happened today rather than 10 years ago, would people still get their shorts in as tight a knot?
You're right to point out
You're right to point out more egregious behaviour in the pages of the NYT, etc. but Barnicle seems disinterested in digging in to any facts, in fact anything beyond the "outrage" and his most recent making up quotes raises the issue, is there no lack of competence great enough to get a lazy hack fired?
Once someone hits TV
Once someone hits TV as a commentator, they're probably being paid to do something other than journalism.