Bakersfield writer's career sleeps with the fishes

http://www.bakersfieldcalifornian.c...ld get away with making up a story like this.

 

So is this guy a staff writer, or just some fisherman yahoo who emails in a weekly column? I have to assume this is a dumb guy's idea of a hilarious April Fool's joke, two days early and without telling the editor.

And on a side note, I can't tell you how happy I am that April 1 falls on Sunday and I don't have to work it this year.

 

I'm guessing he's the local bait shop type. An earlier column (perhaps now a rewritten version of the column in question) calls him a "contributing outdoors columnist" with a non-staff email address.

 

Two fish puns in about 30 words? Spartan Squad, you might have a future as an outdoors writer.

 

Or the makings of a revised version of the old Kip Addotta routine:

 

Nice try, but it's hard to retract an entire column once it has been printed, and the best way to "meet a higher standard" is to check the "facts" as they come in.

You can apologize all you want, but you basically just told your readers that your paper's "reporting" sometimes has "no basis in truth." Nothing against the editor, but it's hard to mount a comeback after that. People will be talking about it for quite a while.

 

I thought this thread was about the the Bakersfield Californian hiring this guy:

 

"Welcome to da neighborhood."