Based upon the facts and previous statements and articles, it appears as though Editor and Publisher Editor Greg Mitchell may have intentionally misled readers when he allegedly came clean regarding a lapse in journalistic ethics early in his career.

The facts seem to indicate he was a 21 year-old paid professional journalist, not the 19 year-old intern he allowed readers to believe. Mitchell has also previously acknowledged relevant facts he managed to get wrong in his mea culpa as highly memorable events.

[Read on. Hat tip: Ace of Spades]

Confederate Yankee has an excellent related post here.

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Media Lies: They say that karma is a bitch....

*** 2006.08.28 Updates:

E&P buries correction on Mitchell’s rewritten column from 2003

Editor & Publisher's Evolving Implosion

Contributed by Bill Faith on August 27, 2006 at 07:16 PM | Permalink

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