Proof That You Don't Have to Be Young and Black...

...all you need is no sense of ethical responsibility. Here's the cut-and-dry "we're gonna sink this bastard" version of Jack Kelley's ouster for plagiarism and fabrication from USA Today.

Here's my you-heard-it-here-first moment of the century, discovered by my tireless research (Google)... Jack Kelley is (was?) faculty at the World Journalism Institute.

The reason I'm familiar with WJI is because flyers for it are frequently passed on to me by my pastor. That's right, WJI is a journalism school focused on Christian ethics. From their mission statement (linked above):

There is one primary reason why the World Journalism Institute should be committed to the education of young journalists: it comes directly from the need to be faithful to the Christian example of accurately reporting (e.g., being reliable eyewitnesses) the work of God in today's world.

We at WJI believe it is now time to implement a new phase of this statement in order to help turn out journalists capable of presuppositional reporting.

O I love the smell of irony in the morning.