Comments on: Mag busts Reuters for using fictional source in “Sopranos” piece

By: mikeyboss

mikeyboss — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 04:44:04 +0000

With any luck it will catch on in the blogsphere and RotoReuters will have to do a searching and fearless moral inventory.

doriangrey on July 16, 2007 at 2:17 PM

Friend of Bill W?

I can’t believe there haven’t been any puns about hiding the salami yet. Is it just so obvious that it’s lame of me to bring it up?

urbancenturion on July 16, 2007 at 11:42 PM

I never sausage a bad joke.

By: urbancenturion

urbancenturion — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 03:42:33 +0000

I can’t believe there haven’t been any puns about hiding the salami yet. Is it just so obvious that it’s lame of me to bring it up?

By: PowWow

PowWow — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 02:08:40 +0000

Exit question: Where’s Johnny now? Exit answer: You know where. With Tommy.

That’s all I was thinking, while I was reading the article.

By: right2bright

right2bright — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 20:17:43 +0000

Karl on July 16, 2007 at 3:49 PM

Ha! Good one.

The shame of being punk’d by an apprentice.

By: Karl

Karl — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:49:24 +0000

Perhaps Reuters thought he was related to Baghdad Police Capt. Jamil Salami.

By: Apeking

Apeking — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:01:40 +0000

““Glenn Greenwald” posted a comment over at Gelf. OK, jokers, which one of you is the sock puppet? I KNOW it was one of you!!!”

It’s notable that some of the comments seem very similar to each other. I wonder which ones are Mark Egan himself, and which are his assistants? When you’re in a hole…

By: Kini

Kini — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:21:08 +0000

All this time I thought Johnny Salami was Jim McGreevey.

By: doriangrey

doriangrey — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:17:37 +0000

profitsbeard on July 16, 2007 at 2:04 PM

With any luck it will catch on in the blogsphere and RotoReuters will have to do a searching and fearless moral inventory.

By: RushBaby

RushBaby — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:16:50 +0000

“Glenn Greenwald” posted a comment over at Gelf. OK, jokers, which one of you is the sock puppet? I KNOW it was one of you!!!

By: profitsbeard

profitsbeard — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:04:35 +0000

doriangrey

RotoReuters

Nice!

By: doriangrey

doriangrey — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:33:51 +0000

How much longer can these idiots keep this sh$t up? Last week the LAT changed a story and only posted a correction after the blogs had mocked the living cr@p out of the LAT for their failure to post a correction and here we have RotoReuters publishing garbage they made up as if it was genuine news? Don’t these imbeciles understand that this is why so many people no longer trust them?

By: dave_lantos

dave_lantos — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:22:14 +0000

This is hilarious! Reuters has now “corrected” the article to read “said a man who identified himself as Johnny Salami” instead of “said Johnny Salami”.

This Mark Egan guy is a total hack. I don’t know why I still get surprised… this is Reuters, after all.

By: Mazztek

Mazztek — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:10:26 +0000

This'll explain it...

By: roux

roux — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:08:38 +0000

It’s amazing that they make stuff up that really doesn’t matter… kinda like Hillary and being named after the then unknown Edmund Hillary.

By: terryannonline

terryannonline — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:08:25 +0000

This Reuters reporter might as well just used a cartoon characters name like Johnny Bravo.

By: profitsbeard

profitsbeard — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:03:17 +0000

lostinfrance-

…no one will hire me to do it.

Have you sent your resmume to Reuters?

By: lostinfrance

lostinfrance — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:58:51 +0000

I can’t believe people get PAID for such sloppy work and beefing up news reporting with fictional tidbits…

I could do that kind of stuff in my sleep but no one will hire me to do it.

Sigh.

By: JammieWearingFool

JammieWearingFool — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:53:46 +0000

a comely hostess who suffered from Irritable Bowel Syndrome and her murderer/addict/screenwriter husband;

I guess they missed the episode where Silvio whacked Adriana.

By: profitsbeard

profitsbeard — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:47:55 +0000

Pete Provolone was quoted as saying that Reuter's will eventually be sleeping with the fishes. (At the moment they just wrap them.)

By: TheBigOldDog

TheBigOldDog — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:44:46 +0000

I like to think of Johnny Salami as New Jersey’s own Loch Ness monster.

They just make it up. It doesn’t matter if it’s Johnny Salami looking for more “bite” or Special Ops people pulling their hair our because Rummy canceled a mission or a memo from a Commanding Officer in the 70s. They just make it up to suit their needs.

By: infidel4life

infidel4life — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:41:24 +0000

mmmmm, that’s some good lookin’ salami right there.

By: Asher

Asher — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:39:42 +0000

Hilarious and not a bit surprising.

If every ‘news’ story was double-checked, I imagine you could uncover many more examples.

By: Veeshir

Veeshir — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:39:25 +0000

This has gone on long enough. I can’t stand to see such a fine journalist maligned.
I’m Johnny Salami and I was at the club that night.
In case you’re wondering what I look like, here’s my picture.

By: RushBaby

RushBaby — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:39:07 +0000

What a wonderful piece or writing by Michael Gluckstadt. The most humorous line in this terrifically humorous piece?

Egan is … a serious news writer

Here’s a quote from Egan:

I’m not interested in helping you with your article.

No, I reckon he’s not, ha ha. Another reuters cockroach gets ~~pinned~~ pwned by the two-million candlepower spotlight! Right on!

By: unamused

unamused — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:37:34 +0000

Please don’t ban me for this, but I once had a client named Rod Wanger.

There was no warning when he was introduced to me over the phone via a conference call. Being a native Texan, he didn’t see what was so funny….