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Gross irresponsibility, incompetence, and total disrespect for the truth aren't enough for you?

Please demonstrate this is the case. All I see is a guy who thought he had a hot story, made a few calls, and published before he got all the facts. Looks like the confusion in school names is what led to this.

Where is all of this terrible negligence you mention?

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I consider myself pretty open minded but I honestly can't even see where you're coming from here. The question here was "Did the man have the degree he claimed to?" and that story involved 2, only TWO, facts. The University he claimed the degree is from and the type of degree.

Of those 2 facts, Dvorak failed to correctly verify one of them and then drew a false conclusion based on that and screwed up the second one. That would be journalistic negligence from anyone. But when you add Dvorak having admitted to writing stories just to generate traffic (http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/9838/) you get a picture of a dishonest man.

I'd say his terrible negligence is in having no professional ethics as a journalist. I expect a journalist to do some fact checking.

http://www.spj.org/ethicscode.asp

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