IT freelancer's street cred questioned
Michelle Delio wrote two stories about former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard Carly Fiorina, after getting a call by a person who told her he worked for Hewlett-Packard.
The stories, which slammed Fiorina, were given to her by the bloke who she identified as an HP engineer in her yarns. In the second story she called him a Hungarian immigrant with the initials GS, and as "an electrical engineer who worked as a research scientist" at the HP's Imaging Systems Laboratory starting in 1975 until he resigned in 2003.
When a Witchfinder General from HP's Press Office failed to locate the leak, he or she came to the conclusion that the story was made up. We know that HP set a Witchfinder General in train to track down sources of stories at the INQ. But have you noticed that since Carly Fiorina has left the company the leaks have abated? This is no doubt a coincidence.
Delio said she met the source several years ago at a technology conference and had believed what he told her about his background and knowledge of HP. Delios said that Technology Review was right to pull the stories, however she now has to face a question of her credibility in other stories she has written.
WiredNews.com published a note to readers citing this month's retractions by TechnologyReview.com and saying it had assigned a journalism professor to review articles written by Delio. InfoWorld said that publication's editorial staff also was also reviewing Delio's work.
Delio told the Associated Press she was confident reviews would not turn up further evidence of problems with her other stories.
One has to question the actions of these papers. While Delio might have had a duff source on a couple of her stories, what would a journalism professor know about journalism and how would he or she mark her work? ยต
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