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May 12, 2005
Who grieves for Griego?
News - Rick Rodriguez: Griego Erwin resigns amid internal inquiry into her columns - sacbee.com
Diana Griego Erwin, whose column has appeared in this space three days a week, resigned Wednesday amid an internal inquiry into whether some people mentioned in several recent columns actually existed.Wow! I almost danced a jig about this. Unbelievable. Guess some of those anti-war letters might have been conjured up on "the Griegz" laptop at home.During our inquiry we found we could not authenticate the existence of several people even though they were identified by name, age and sometimes by the neighborhoods in which they were reported to have lived. We used extensive online database searches as well as old-fashioned shoe-leather work in our investigation over the past 2 1/2 weeks.
I love these quotes from a Poytner interview/verbal tonguebath:
"My columns are like variety shows."
"I’m just as comfortable going to some hoity toity community as I am hanging out in a barrio apartment without a working toilet."
And even better....The Bee, not infallable......
Makes you wonder, with Ombudsman Tony Marcano's departure in November last year, what other surprises await us with this new news product, the Sacramento Bee soap opera. Perhaps the long anticipated outing of R.E Graswich? Or maybe the big kahuna......Hanoi Heaply herself resigning? I love it when fake libs crash and burn. Fuhrer Farve, we need you!
Posted by cystdog at May 12, 2005 06:20 AM
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