Jason Leopold's career in review

May 21, 2006 12:20 PM

Are those burning trousers I smell? Jason Leopold's journalism has been posted on metafilter on several occasions including his article about Karl Rove being indictedhere,here,here, and here to name a few. However, Leopold's career as a journalist is full of speculation, bad sources, and he's been fired from practically every news company he's worked for. While we spend a lot of time lambasting red-state plagiarists etc. it is good to luck at Jason's remarkably bad record. Here Jane Galt (which is the mysterious right-wing moniker of an economist contributor) sums uo Jason's remarkably bad record. Quote: "We're talking about a story from Jason Leopold, the fellow who was jettisoned by Salon for plagiarizing and making explosive allegations about Secretary of the Army Thomas White that subsequently could not be authenticated, either by the source or Leopold's cell phone records. According to the New York Times, Dow Jones, his former employer, was similarly disenchanted with his work habits."
posted by aljones15 (13 comments total)

Yes, so Leopold is a sketchy journalist. What larger judgments are you drawing from that fact?
posted by Dogmilk at 12:27 PM on May 21, 2006

Is this a post about your thoughts or a post about a good link? a bit too much editoralizing I fear.
posted by edgeways at 12:28 PM on May 21, 2006

additionally, his wikpedia page has been the subject of an edit war.
posted by aljones15 at 12:28 PM on May 21, 2006

Dogmilk, the article is of interest becuase Leopold's work is regularly cited on metafilter. Hence his record is of interest in future discussions.

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posted by aljones15 at 12:30 PM on May 21, 2006

"Is this a post about your thoughts or a post about a good link? a bit too much editoralizing I fear."

It's not about my thoughts obviously, I was trying to summarize Jane Galt's post while stating why the link might be of interest. it's not intended to be a "condemming" of the people who have posted his stuff in the past or the future.
posted by aljones15 at 12:32 PM on May 21, 2006

Dogmilk, the article is of interest becuase Leopold's work is regularly cited on metafilter.

Take it to MetaTalk. A FPP should stand on its own.
posted by rxrfrx at 12:35 PM on May 21, 2006

"Take it to MetaTalk. A FPP should stand on its own."
wasn't aware.
sorry.

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posted by aljones15 at 12:36 PM on May 21, 2006

This is a disapointingly crap post. One link to a single article about leopold, and then links to other MeFi threads? This should have gone into MeTa.

There is actually a ton of stuff out there about Leopold Like this "partial appology"

While we spend a lot of time lambasting red-state plagiarists etc.

Erm, I don't think I've noticed any political bias to bitching about plagiarists. The most prominent I can think of are that Indian chick, and Blair Hornstine.
posted by delmoi at 12:39 PM on May 21, 2006

This anonymous conservative blogger is attacking Jason for a lack of credibility. I find the protrayal of Jason's past on that posting to be as negative as possible. While I am not a supporter of Jason's, this person criticizing him isn't engaging in honest debate either.
posted by bhouston at 12:41 PM on May 21, 2006

bhouston: here is an article on a popular, left-leaning blog. The Leopold story is really intresting, but this FPP totally sucks.

And by the way "Jane Gault" not only 'conservative' but a randoid objectivist as well. Eww.
posted by delmoi at 12:45 PM on May 21, 2006

Two crap posts do not make a right.
posted by LarryC at 12:46 PM on May 21, 2006

An edit war on Wikipedia? I'm shocked! Shocked, I tell you.
posted by ?! at 12:47 PM on May 21, 2006

BREAKING! Jason Leopold Swallowed by Alligator! UPDATED
posted by delmoi at 12:48 PM on May 21, 2006