It's Not Just Scott Beauchamp

Randall Hoven does yeoman work in this post, producing a laundry list of over 60 members of the MSM–many of whom are very big hitters indeed–who have been caught very publicly cooking the books:

Offenses include lying and fabricating, doctoring photos, plagiarism, conflicts of interest, falling for hoaxes, and overt bias. Some are hilarious, such as an action figure doll being mistaken for a real soldier. Some are silly, such as reporting on a baseball game watched on TV. Some are more serious.

Randall asks, “If this is the visible part of the iceberg, just how big is the iceberg?” Big, especially when you consider how much easier it was to yank the polyester over readers’ glazzballs before the Blogosphere.

And check out the 1998 quote from Bernard Kalp at the top of Randall’s post; it very much places a laundry list of my own from a couple of years ago into context.