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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: fabrication

fabrication stories: 4 news summaries

Disgraced Reporter Jayson Blair Now a Life Coach

Psychologist: 'he can relate to patients just beautifully'

Aug 20, 09 11:21 AM CDT
(AP) - Former journalist Jayson Blair knows his new profession—life coach—smacks some people in the face like a bad punchline. "People say, 'Wait a minute. You're a life coach?' That makes no sense,'" says Blair, who’s best known for foisting plagiarism and fabrications into the pages of... More »

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New York Times • plagiarism • fabrication • Jayson Blair • life coach

 Meet the Men Who Make Oscars 

Spotlight misses Chicago workers behind Hollywood's most coveted trophy

Feb 1, 09 7:13 PM CST
(Newser) - Come Feb. 22, Hollywood will be fêting the stars who take home the Oscars—but there’s little chance any of the acceptance speeches will thank the guys who made the statues. From Martin Vega, who melts pewter alloy for the hardware, to Eladio Gonzalez, who gives Oscar his... More »

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Brad Pitt • Academy Awards • award show • gold • fabrication • copper • Oscar statue • Bette Davis • silver • Oscars • Alloy

Gang Memoir Exposed
as Fiction

Author of Love and Consequences fesses up to fabricating

Mar 4, 08 7:50 AM CST
(Newser) - Margaret Jones' acclaimed memoir of a half-Native American girl growing up in a foster home in South Central LA and running with gangs, Love and Consequences, turns out to be fiction, the New York Times reports. Jones, whose real name is Seltzer, grew up with her birth parents in an... More »

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gangs • Los Angeles • fiction • publishing • memoir • author • book • fabrication • Penguin Group • Margaret Jones • Margaret Seltzer • South Central LA • Riverhead • Love and Consequences

RIP Che, but
Not in His
Tomb in Cuba

Guevara burial site not nearly as advertised, New Republic reports

Oct 31, 07 3:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - Thousands came to Che Guevara's Cuban mausoleum in July to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the revolutionary’s death—but they were paying respects at the wrong resting place. A French journalist claims that Fidel Castro’s government never actually found the Argentine’s body—as was triumphantly announced 10... More »

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Fidel Castro • Cuba • mausoleum • martyr • Che Guevara • fabrication

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