The Beagle wins national award.After publishing only one issue, The Rhinebeck Beagle has won the First Annual Jason Blair-Jack Kelley Award for Fraudulent Journalism. The award is named in honor of the New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times reporter and the USA Today USA Today National U.S. daily general-interest newspaper, the first of its kind. Launched in 1982 by Allen Neuharth, head of the Gannett newspaper chain, it reached a circulation of one million within a year and surpassed two million in the 1990s. editor, respectively, who were both fired for breaches of journalistic ethics, including fabricated quotes and plagiarism Using ideas, plots, text and other intellectual property developed by someone else while claiming it is your original work. . The judges cited The Beagle "for compelling journalism unencumbered by the facts." Jury chairman Larry Flynt of Penthouse said, "Most newspapers and magazines are still stuck in the mud of "The truth shall set thee free.' "But it's fiction (and a few nice photos) that shall set thee free. The Rhinebeck Beagle has exhibited a rare form of exhilarating journalism eschewing the truth in favor of ... Is this mike still on?" In the finals, The Rhinebeck Beagle bested The Berkshire Eagle and The Akron Bugle bugle, brass wind musical instrument consisting of a conical tube coiled once upon itself, capable of producing five or six harmonics. It is usually in G or B flat. . --Sample article from the second issue of The Rhinebeck Beagle, Summer 2004 |
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