USA Today Reporter: Used'Poor Judgment'

[Judi Lynn]

Jan 10, 11:34 PM EST

USA Today Reporter: Used'Poor Judgment'




WASHINGTON (AP) -- Pulitzer Prize finalist Jack Kelley says he "panicked and used poor judgment" during an investigation into his stories for USA Today that led to his departure from the newspaper.

While defending his work with the paper and saying he still stands behind every story written during a 21-year career there, Kelley told The Washington Post he resigned because he made an indefensible mistake in attempting to defend himself.

Specifically, he said in an effort to prove he had spoken with a human rights activist in Yugoslavia, he encouraged a translator who was not present during a 1999 meeting with the activist to impersonate another translator who was there. He told the Post the woman who agreed to help him called the USA Today journalist assigned to investigate the matter last fall and verified Kelley's account as if she had been there.

Kelley said he realized the magnitude of his error and confessed to the paper about two weeks after the bogus call, the Post reported in Sunday editions.
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[Gysgt213]

1. Well at least he has some integrity!

What's really the difference from what he did and the entire reporting of Fox News. Every program on that station from Fraud & Friends to the crawler at bottom of the screen is made up to look like it's legitimate.

[0007]

2. Makes one wonder what else is in the closet!

[Ms. Clio]

3. thanks for the updated info

I was wondering what the guy had done, specifically.