Anonymity Update: The Rogues' Gallery

I thought I had a pretty comprehensive memory of recent journalism scandals -- after all, it's my former (and possibly future) profession. But writing in the American Thinker, Randall Hoven has a veritable Rogues' Gallery of no fewer than sixty-two media miscreants: liars, fabricators, photoshoppers, reviewers who reviewed events they skipped, and all kinds of bad actors. 

These are not exceptions. This is mainstream journalism today. 

He doesn't even list two-thirds of The New Republic's crew: he has "Scott Thomas" Beauchamp, but misses Scott's squeeze Elspeth Reeve (who liked to use Scott as a source without mentioning the squeeze thing), and enabler, I mean editor, Fraudulent Franklin Foer who, caught in a deep pit of lies, can't stop digging. Or lying. 

There are a lot of dishonest journalists out there (and these are only the ones who have been caught). This is one of those blog posts that opens and loads, and you see that your scroll bar is real small. 

Yet the amazing thing about Hoven's list is that, as long as it is, he's still missing a few. I found a few more and sent them along to Randall (including at least one that was actually there, and that I only thought he missed); if he doesn't post them later on I will. 

Hoven has useful advice for readers, also: "If it is 'too good to be true', or just too politically correct to be true, take it with a grain of salt - several grains, apparently, if from The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The New Republic, CNN or Reuters."