Here’s a page that aggregates all the stories he wrote. He’s currently at Raw Story.
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Obviously, someone got to it and grabbed it away before you had a chance to see it. Hence, the name.
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No, you’re confusing him with your cousin Thatched Roof, who also doesn’t exist, but in a different city.
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It is an interesting story. The only problem is that Glass is played by horribly wooden – and now virtually unemployable – Hayden Christensen, whose performance drags the film down. But it is still a cautionary tale.
I worked in journalism for 20 years and, though I was a photographer not a writer, I found the easiest way to get a quote from someone was to ask them. Thompson seems to have expended much more energy making up stories than he ever would have simply doing the job.
That said, he should now be ostracized from the halls of journalism forever (meaning he’ll probably end up at either Gawker or Fox News).
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Another guy from the Bill O’Reilly school of faking sms… journalism and orgasms.
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Agreed. Just because TPM staff have become familiar with faces and names doesn’t mean the rest of us have, and often we’ve had no reason on Earth to have ever known said face or name. That’s kind of one of the jobs of a news organization – to tell the readers (or watchers) what we’re looking at.
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Isn’t he that prince from Nigeria that sends all those emails asking for your bank account number so he can transfer money out of his country ?
Just another example of the old saying. On the Internet no one knows that you’re a dog.
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Editor’s note: Juan M. Thompson authored a piece for TPM’s Slice last year. An editor’s note on the status of that piece will be forthcoming.
Too bad it wasn’t that disaster of a piece speculating (using Palin-quality thinking) that camping was a white thing, because escaped slaves had had quite enough of roughing it in the wilderness, thank you. If he’d been the author, The Slice might have been able to erase one of the stains that took it off my reading list for good.
The hack job on Joe Biden would still be part of Slice, though, so even a retraction of the camping article wouldn’t get me back into that sewer.
My thoughts, too. How dumb can one be?
You mean they’re all fake? Hmm, I just bought a ticket to Nigeria to pick up my check for $4.5 million USD.
You know, before email we used to get faxes with these Nigerian scams. We advertised in an international catalog.
It had our phone and fax #.
We figured they were a variation on the old “pigeon drop”;
“I found this money and will share it if you can show your good faith by putting up $xxx to prove it.”
I’ve heard of people going there to pick up a check and disappearing.
Doesn’t matter if you’ve heard of it. They’ve broken some major stories that were then picked up by orgs that you have heard of.
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I’ve written Josh a few times about this. Sometimes you can figure out who is in the photo, but many times you cannot. It is infuriating. And I’ve never seen a good explanation for why TPM, unlike every other news site in the world, resists doing this very simple thing.
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There is no explanation for it. Good or bad.
the thing that drives me crazy is that it seems like they’ve drawn this line between analysis and regurgitation. they have a category of articles that they basically report as verbatim from the event/sources and without any contextualizing, and another category, editors blog, cafe etc. which is the only place where they do quotation fact checks, refutations of quotes and comments, or contextualization at all.
If nothing else, he’ll fit in perfectly there as a headline writer. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve clicked on a headline to find that the story was the opposite of what the title claimed. And of course there would be 500 comments from people who didn’t read the article, all outraged about the headline.
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That can get difficult when the person doesn’t exist in the first place.
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