USA Today fires reporter for faking stories

USA Today said Friday that an examination of the work of journalist Jack Kelley found strong evidence that the newspaper's former star foreign correspondent had fabricated substantial portions of at least eight major stories, including a firsthand account of settlers shooting on a Palestinian taxi in Hebron.

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Kelley spent his entire 21-year career at USA Today and was five times nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, the most prestigious award in journalism.

For one of the stories that helped make him a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2001, Kelley wrote that he was an eyewitness to a suicide bombing. But the investigation showed that the man Kelley described could not have been the bomber, USA Today said.

On September 2001 Kelley reported that he joined a group of settlers from Hebron at an ambush, from which they fired at a Palestinian taxi. According to Kelley, there were no injuries in the incident.
The newspaper also said "the evidence strongly contradicted" other published accounts by Kelley: that he spent the night with Egyptian terrorists in 1997; watched a Pakistani student unfold a picture of the Sears Tower and say, "This one is mine," in 2001; interviewed the daughter of an Iraqi general in 2003; or went on a high-speed hunt for Osama bin Laden in 2003.

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Full story here...

Journalistic experience "optional".

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some do believe USA Today reports. They are usually a mishmash of other news reports anyway.

thats his quote from the article.

What else did he fabricate??

should seek work with Electronic Intifada. No fact checking to concern him.

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