Mitch Albom and the 5 people you meet when you write a fake-ass review

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http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/more/wires/04/23/2080.ap.albom.investigation.0479/index.html?cnn=yes

DETROIT (AP) -- Best-selling author Mitch Albom and four other employees of the Detroit Free Press were disciplined after an investigation prompted by a column by Albom that contained errors and purported to describe events at a game even though it was written before it took place, the newspaper said in a letter to readers in Saturday's paper.

Albom will resume writing for the Free Press, according to the letter written by Carole Leigh Hutton, the newspaper's editor and publisher. Albom's work has not appeared since an April 7 column in which he discussed the problems and apologized to readers.

Albom, host of a nationally syndicated radio talk show and author of the best-selling books "Tuesdays With Morrie'' and "The Five People You Meet in Heaven,'' reported in a column April 3 that former Michigan State players Mateen Cleaves and Jason Richardson attended the Michigan State-North Carolina NCAA semifinal on April 2. He had reported that the players "sat in the stands, in their MSU clothing, and rooted on their alma mater.'' Neither player was at the game.

Albom said he wrote the column before the game took place, as if the events already had happened, based on what the players had told him they planned to do. The paper said the players' plans changed after they were interviewed.

[TreasonousBastard]

1. Asshole! If you're gonna...

write ahead of the story, check the damn copy before you send it in.

Jeez... nothing wrong with saving some time to make the deadline, but how fucking lazy can you get.