Alicia C. Shepard
The Huffington Post
Published 7/13/2007
Excerpt:
Cooke left journalism and sunk into obscurity. It remains to be seen what will happen to Buscaglia. "I take full responsibility for it," she told the Register reporter who wrote the story saying Buscaglia wasn't coming to the paper after all. "It's one of those things you put on a résumé when you are young and stupid and you can never take it back."
Bob Steele, an ethicist at the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Fla., isn't so sure about that. It might be better to come clean. "That kind of lie is a sandbag on someone's shoulders," said Steele. "If someone felt the person hiring would understand, then they might take the chance that person hiring would forgive them. Then at least they get that sandbag off their shoulders."
But then, this might be a lesson to all those newly minted college graduates: It's simple. Don't lie on you résumé.
