{"id":107,"date":"2006-04-25T01:57:55","date_gmt":"2006-04-25T01:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/funny_boneless\/"},"modified":"2006-04-25T01:57:55","modified_gmt":"2006-04-25T01:57:55","slug":"funny_boneless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/funny\/funny_boneless\/","title":{"rendered":"Funny Boneless"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Prison_break\"<\/a>Earlier today I mentioned<\/a> Nick Sylvester’s Village Voice<\/em> article<\/a> about pickup artists. The Voice<\/em> fired him for taking liberties with the truth–for mixing reporting and riffing<\/a> a little too ambiguously. <\/p>\n

The lesson: if you make stuff up and put it in a newspaper, make it obvious that you’re making stuff up. Case in point: Sylvester’s 2005 Voice<\/em> article<\/a> on college cheating methods. <\/p>\n

But wait! Apparently even that’s not enough. In reporting<\/a> last month on Sylvester’s pickup piece, AP writer David Caruso mentioned Sylvester’s cheating piece:<\/p>\n

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In an August story about cheating on college campuses, Sylvester described interviewing a student who spent $500,000 to have a multiplication table tattooed over his entire body; a Harvard Medical School graduate who cheated with Morse code; a Boston College junior named Simeon Criz who cheated using a specially designed deck of playing cards; and a Manhattan doctor named Noam Feldstein who delivers "a hundred newborn babies each day."<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Boston College said it had no record of a student named Simeon Criz. The board that licenses doctors in New York said it had no record of a physician named Noam Feldstein.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nIn all fairness, I believe it was the AP that broke the story that the guy in Prison Break<\/a> is an actor.<\/p>\n

(Oh, how relieved I would be to learn that Caruso and his editors were merely reenacting this gag<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Earlier today I mentioned Nick Sylvester’s Village Voice article about pickup artists. The Voice fired him for taking liberties with the truth–for mixing reporting and riffing a little too ambiguously. The lesson: if you make stuff up and put it in a newspaper, make it obvious that you’re making stuff up. Case in point: Sylvester’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}