Most, if not all, of the stories listed in this article are pure puff pieces, not the kind of hard journalism that you would expect someone to rigorously fact check.
He made up an embarrassing story that supposedly happened in the office that is of absolutely no consequence other than it's an embarrassing story? How do you even reasonably fact check that?
He said that someone once sneezed on him at a Burger King for a story about sneezing etiquette... how you fact check that?
And for the big finale he told someone at the NYT that he likes listening to vinyl? And they didn't even ask to see his vinyl club of America membership card? Outrageous!
The only one of these where he seems to be acting as an expert in anything and offering advice to that effect is the winterizing your boat thing, and that doesn't appear on a legit news website. It's a shitty wordpress site operated by a manufacturer.
I suppose he technically lied his way into all these news organizations, but it's not exactly the caper of the century.
Guy lies to various media outlets and feeds them bogus stories to prove that various media outlets will publish anything that will get them more pageviews/readers/circulation/whatever, regardless of the quality of the story.
Then similar various media outlets cover the story of the guy who lied to the media outlets to prove that they'd write any sort of stupid story like about a guy who lied to the media outlets to prove....
He made up an embarrassing story that supposedly happened in the office that is of absolutely no consequence other than it's an embarrassing story? How do you even reasonably fact check that?
He said that someone once sneezed on him at a Burger King for a story about sneezing etiquette... how you fact check that?
And for the big finale he told someone at the NYT that he likes listening to vinyl? And they didn't even ask to see his vinyl club of America membership card? Outrageous!
The only one of these where he seems to be acting as an expert in anything and offering advice to that effect is the winterizing your boat thing, and that doesn't appear on a legit news website. It's a shitty wordpress site operated by a manufacturer.
I suppose he technically lied his way into all these news organizations, but it's not exactly the caper of the century.