Adam LaRoche and his son

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Sounds like a DeNiro thing. Friends, and friends only, call him "Bob" ...

 

Real friends of DeNiro call him "Bobby".

I'd tell you how I know this, but I'd hate to look like I was big timing you.

 

Meh, I wouldn't trust you anyway without a truly transparent explanation.

 

No, that's not the argument. The argument is that readers know the difference between a columnist for USA Today and a first-year journalism student. Again, they don't even have to know who Nightengale is. But if they pick up USA Today and see Nightengale's mug next his story, they're going to know the guy isn't a first-year journalism student. Fact.

 

OK, and they will technically also realize he is not Queen Elizabeth or Elvis Presley.

I get it.

The point is that the modern information tornado doesn't really make those distinctions. Information is reported. Then it is re-reported. And, before long, it's being reported 10th, 15th, and 100th hand as established fact.

 

I agree with that. But when someone sees his column published in USA Today (which was the premise upon which this tangent began), they do know the difference, even if YF can't figure it out.

 

Considering Nightengale's predecessor at USA Today, Hal Bodley, was the biggest management mouthpiece in the history of management mouthpieces, I don't generally trust anything I read in the publication.

 

Access!!

 

Hal Bodley, literally, wrote the book on journalism ethics for APSE.

 

That's APSE's problem, not mine. He was a shame to journalism.

 

I will agree that USAT-era Bodley was a different animal than pre-USAT Bodley.

 

I didn't know Bodley before he got to USA Today, although I did receive a very polite letter back from him back in 1980 when as editor of the Delaware New Journal he rejected my entry level application.