(CBS) Boston Globe columnist Mike Barnicle resigned from the newspaper Wednesday. The columnist was forced to resign once editors suspected he made up a 1995 column about two children with cancer, reports CBS News It started when a New Republic reporter was fired for making up all or part of 27 stories.
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"Although the facts are not all the same, the story is real" -- Mike Barnicle, on the column that got him fired ... Striking Similarities: Mike Barnicle, this is A.J. Liebling. Have you met?; 8/19 Boston Phoenix article on Barnicle lifting from Liebling (also see their analysis of how Barnicle kept recycling the same...
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Indeed, the most amazing aspect of the Mike Barnicle story is that he wasn't fired on any number of occasions -- beginning with one of his very first columns -- for all manner of professional malpractice.
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Mike Barnicle, this is A.J. Liebling. Have you met? ... In other dealings with Kierstead, Kirtz says, "I found him nothing but courteous and amiable." As for Barnicle's apparent reliance on Liebling, Kirtz -- who fired a writer for plagiarism in 1969, when he was a community-newspaper publisher -- is more pointed.
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"Morning Joe" contributor Mike Barnicle (who some people I know really like, for some reason, I mean balding white cranks are the most interchangeable goddamn people in punditry, but I digress) is full of fuss and mewl today. ... . Barnicle - Fired by Boston Globe for plagiarism. 'nuff said. .
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I think he actually resigned from the Boston Globe after being blamed for plagiarism.
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In 1990, Boston Globe columnist Mike Barnicle wrote a column in which he accused Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz of having made a racially-biased statement. ... This June, when the Globe revealed that another columnist, Patricia Smith, had been fired for fabricating characters, to no one's surprise,
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Interestingly, they ignored far more serious journalistic breaches committed by white conservative newspaper writers who are still working in the newspaper biz, such as Mike Barnicle (fired from the Boston Globe, but now employed by the New York Daily News and MSNBC) and Jeff Jacoby (who, despite repeated violations...
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Mike Barnicle, award-winning columnist and frequent national talk show personality, speaks his mind about politics, sports, current events, and his beloved Boston. ... By Mike Barnicle...
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