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As if getting an “old-fashioned ass-whooping courtesy of the Daily Cal”:http://clog.dailycal.org/index.php?id=101 wasn’t enough, the Stanford Daily just added yet another notch to its shame belt.
The Daily suspended Managing News Editor David Herbert last week after he admitted lying to the paper about his own heroics abroad an airliner. His tall tale appeared in a story last Monday, for which the paper issued a correction/retraction/apology the next day.
Herbert, co-captain of the Stanford men’s squash team that was on the flight, claimed he helped restrain a violent passenger.
In reality the alcoholically lubricated editor, far from providing heroic assistance, made things worse by verbally abusing the unruly passenger.
It would be easy to castigate the Stanford Daily for shitting on journalistic standards, but we’re inclined to cut them a little slack. Clearly, the Daily’s staff remains too traumatized from their Ink Bowl loss to properly run a student newsletter, let alone scrutinize a self-aggrandizing news story.
Original story: On plane, squash to the rescue [Stanford Daily]
Correction: Squash story contained inaccuracies [Stanford Daily]
Public editor responds: [Stanford Daily]
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