MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE (The Borowitz Report) — Scandal rocked Bernie Sanders's Presidential campaign on Friday as the candidate was forced to admit that he received free checking from several big banks.
By Andy Borowitz February 5, 2016 MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE (The Borowitz Report) — Scandal rocked Bernie Sanders's Presidential campaign on Friday as the candidate was forced to admit that he received free checking from several big banks.
First, journalists now report scandals in a "connect-the-dots" fashion, placing events side by side, "implying that they are causally related when there are no facts to show that they are".
Mr. Dumas, 77, a friend of former President Francois Mitterrand, was foreign minister at the time of the reported scandal.
He resigned in November over a reporting scandal, but was given a full year's salary in addition to a normal severance payment.
Usually, they coincide with a bad moment for television journalism: a reporting scandal, newsroom budget cuts, censorship, attacks from outsiders, the cancellation of a respected program, the death of a prominent broadcaster.
In the most widely reported scandal, lower-class residents in an outer Moscow neighbourhood that still features old, single-family wooden houses staged noisy protests over the city's demolition plans.
When Ms. Hays was asked who had made the decision to shelve the article, she said she and four other editors had, including Tim Quinson, who in September was assigned to the new position of standards editor after an internal review of the May reporting scandal.
But rightwing clergy were convinced there was a danger of London becoming the "new Sodom", as its underworld of sex workers, opium dens and brothels became more obvious in an era where newspapers were becoming bolder in reporting scandal, albeit in couched and nervous terms.
It is true too that some of those reporting scandals had their own knives to grind.
And even a brilliant success would not erase the litany of expensive legal and other problems caused by the reporting scandals.
