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If He’s a Pulitzer Winner, Call Me a Citizen Journalist

April 22, 2006 by Liz Leave a Comment

Busted

In every Greek Tragedy, the protagonist has a tragic flaw that causes his downfall. I don’t see a protagonist here. I see someone who never outgrew schoolyard.

Last night the LA Times suspended a Pulitzer Prize winner’s blog for something he did that any 7-year-child knows isn’t right.

His name is Michael Hiltzik, and he lied by pretending to be someone else.

He’s a journalist, and he lied in print. He wrote comments under pseudonyms–nice ones on his own blog and not so nice ones on blogs that had content that disagreed with the content on his. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Business Life, Strategy/Analysis, Successful Blog, Trends Tagged With: bc, citizen_journalist, editor_and_publisher, Jared_Paul_Stern, Jeff_Jarvis, LA_Times, Mainstream_media, Michael_Hiltzik, New_York_Post, Pulitzer_Prize, Roger_L._Simon, Tom_Glocer, trevor_butterworth

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