Reply #25: You mean disgraced ex-Boston Globe reporter, Mike Barnicle?

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Why, he's the fellow that was quit/fired for article fabrication and plagiarizing...








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George Carlin!

The columnist was forced to resign once editors suspected he made up a 1995 column about two children with cancer, reports CBS News Correspondent Jacqueline Adams. Barnicle was already serving a suspension for lifting material from a best-selling book by comedian George Carlin.

The announcement of his resignation drew cheers and laughter in the Globe newsroom.

Assistant Metro Editor Joe Williams is one of the many staffers heartened by the decision to get rid of Barnicle.

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The column that forced Barnicle's resignation was one in which the columnist told the story of two children, one white and one black, who became friends in the hospital. After the black child died, Barnicle wrote, the parents of the white child gave the black child's parents $10,000.

link: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1998/08/19/national/main16277.shtml