Post: #1

Check it out:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/17/busine....html?_r=0

Quote:The Los Angeles Times fired an investigative journalist last week, after disclosing errors in articles about sexual abuse accusations at Occidental College and revealing that the reporter had an inappropriate relationship with a source for one of those articles.

The journalist, Jason Felch, a Pulitzer Prize finalist for other coverage, reported in a front-page article last December that Occidental College had failed to disclose 27 sexual abuse accusations that had occurred in 2012. The newspaper’s claim was repeated in two subsequent articles.

Here is what this guy looks like:







He looks like your stereotypical white knight.

Post: #2

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=felching

'Twas his destiny . . .

Post: #3

Having inappropriate relations with a source is usually something female reporters do. This is one reason I dismiss a lot of women's writing: because it's influenced by the men they're writing about in a way that could not be done if the reporting was being done by a man.

I worked in a newsroom where the female cops and courts reporter was sleeping with the police PR guy, for example. And in the entertainment and photography field, stories are legion when it comes to women bedding their subjects (Linda McCartney being a prime example).

But this is a rarity: a guy who uses his wiles to seduce a female source. Should we be giving him credit for being a player before being a journalist?

According to his Huffington Post bio, he's also straight and married, so he was cheating too, unless he's split from his wife.

(Addendum: hate to give Gawker a link, but they did do a really good article on reporters sleeping with sources a few years ago. You can also Google reporter slept with source (no quotes) for much more.)