They are killing trees to print these editorials (cont'd)

I thought about dissecting today’s Chronicle editorial on the U.N.’s oil-for-food scandal, but it would be more work than it’s worth. The editorial is, well, classic Chronicle, written in the editors’ “ideal state,” I suppose.

Earlier this week, the Chronicle‘s junior metro/state diarist Lisa Falkenberg ran with a truly unfortunate “gotcha!” that backfired. Badly. Falkenberg used her column effectively to accuse a U.S. military veteran of lying about his service:

Late in the week, reader Leslie Price forwarded along a Fisking of a Chronicle article that was so much fun we asked if we could reproduce it verbatim. Price’s post is below, with minor formatting