{"id":3263,"date":"2010-12-10T08:50:35","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T14:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=3263"},"modified":"2010-12-10T08:50:35","modified_gmt":"2010-12-10T14:50:35","slug":"today-in-journalism-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=3263","title":{"rendered":"Today in journalism fraud."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Onion A.V. Club published a review of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1600108288?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=stainles-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1600108288\">Genius, Isolated: The Life and Art of Alex Toth<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=stainles-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1600108288\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/strong> as part of their &#8220;Comics Panel&#8221; feature.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s just one tiny little problem: <a href=\"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/2010\/12\/most-amazing-review-of-the-year.html\">the book hasn&#8217;t been published yet<\/a>. (Amazon shows it as scheduled for July 12, 2011.)<\/p>\n<p>The A.V. Club actually handled this in a pretty classy way; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/an-apology-from-the-av-club,48888\/\">a public apology<\/a>, and the unnamed writer has apparently been fired.<\/p>\n<p>(Hattip: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poynter.org\/latest-news\/romenesko\/110311\/a-v-club-editor-apologizes-for-review-of-book-that-hasnt-been-published-isnt-finished\/\">Jimbo<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>This reminds me of something else I&#8217;ve been meaning to link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.regrettheerror.com\/2010\/12\/08\/crunks-2010-the-year-in-media-errors-and-corrections\/\">&#8220;Regret the Error&#8221;&#8216;s 2010 year in review<\/a>. Guess who&#8217;s number one on their list?<\/p>\n<p>(I wish I could link directly to the &#8220;apology of the year&#8221;, but instead <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cjr.org\/behind_the_news\/star_trek_insurrection.php\">I&#8217;ll link to this<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Onion A.V. Club published a review of Genius, Isolated: The Life and Art of Alex Toth as part of their &#8220;Comics Panel&#8221; feature. There&#8217;s just one tiny little problem: the book hasn&#8217;t been published yet. (Amazon shows it as scheduled for July 12, 2011.) The A.V. Club actually handled this in a pretty classy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,38,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clippings","category-firings","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3263"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3266,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3263\/revisions\/3266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}