MrRING
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Remember the recent fuss made over the lying journalists who made up high-profile, award-winning stories, then got fired or quit when the truth was discovered?
Well, it turns out gifted film producer Val Lewton got started out doing the same thing! To quote from IMDB:
Lost his job as a reporter for the Darien-Stamford Review after it was discovered that a story about a truckload of kosher chickens dying in a New York heat wave was a total fabrication.
http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0507932/bio
And it made me wonder - how many post-Yellow Journalism newspaper reporters have been scandalized for making up stories only to go on to famous careers in other fields? Or is Val Lewton it?
Well, it turns out gifted film producer Val Lewton got started out doing the same thing! To quote from IMDB:
Lost his job as a reporter for the Darien-Stamford Review after it was discovered that a story about a truckload of kosher chickens dying in a New York heat wave was a total fabrication.
http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0507932/bio
And it made me wonder - how many post-Yellow Journalism newspaper reporters have been scandalized for making up stories only to go on to famous careers in other fields? Or is Val Lewton it?