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Wow, there’s a great tennis match going on over at The Berkeley Daily Planet … and we don’t mean that literally. The back and forth between reporter Judith Scherr and editor-owner Becky O’Malley is really quite astounding. No love in this match.
Scherr recently resigned, citing ethics and integrity in an e-mail to friends. And what is journalism without ethics, right? (Uhh, Daily Planet?)
Specifically, Scherr left because of …
2.5 years of being insulted, berated and lied to by the Daily Planet’s executive editor – and having my stories distorted by the deletion of quotes from persons Becky O’Malley hates and the addition of her nasty remarks about such people
O’Malley retorted with an O RLY: Scherr’s facts are “almost 100% untrue.” And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
The history between the women goes way back, and we’re not sure it even matters who’s right here. We mean, do you even read the Planet?
Image Source: Jared Hanson under Creative Commons
Berkeley Daily Planet Reporter Quits Over Paper’s “Lack of Journalistic Integrity” [The Snitch]
Tags:Becky O'Malley, Berkeley Daily Planet, catfight, drama, Judith Scherr
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Sep 25, 2008 at 1:38 pm
Tell it to Perry White
Sep 25, 2008 at 2:51 pm
If you’re not reading the Planet’s Letters to the Editors section, you’re missing out on one of the greatest entertainments that Berkeley offers its residents. O’Malley may run a biased paper, but she gives the locals a place to air their opinions. And, oh yes, you can replace “locals” with “nutjobs.”
Sep 25, 2008 at 3:27 pm
She may run a biased paper, but at least it’s a paper. As long as you know that you’re going to be viewing it through the relevant lens, the Daily Planet is an excellent source for finding out what’s going on, and it’s willing to piss people off. It typically has more comprehensive coverage than, say, the Daily Cal, even on campus-related things. See today’s Daily Planet front page, for instance.
The letters never fail to entertain.
The only thing that leaps out at me is Scherr’s suggestion that she was concerned that O’Malley would let her politics affect the journalism, and eventually decided that this wasn’t the case.
Jan 10, 2009 at 10:37 pm
I mean, the Daily Planet is a better newspaper than the Daily Cal. Most people would agree. It’s funny that you even try to compare them.
Sep 25, 2008 at 10:50 am
Berkeley is not a planet! u may want it to be so. How can I trust a rag, when it cannot get simply things correct, like what planet they live on?