BOB OWENS may have discovered why the Editor of Editor & Publisher is so sympathetic to staged news.

Jeff Goldstein: “Fortunately for us, though, Google never forgets.”

UPDATE: Ouch: “I wasn’t a perfect reporter, but it’s pretty easy to avoid making stuff up out of whole cloth. My dad and I both know that. Mr. Mitchell does not. My dad and I are both conservative bloggers. Mr. Mitchell is editor of Editor and Publisher. Telling, isn’t it?”

ANOTHER UPDATE: Now Mitchell is charged with airbrushing the original story. After bloggers had quoted it. Can he be that stupid?