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Gee, USA Today must be a really fun place to work, what with all of the employee comaraderie and good will and whatnot. Jack Kelley, the former boy wonder at America's largest McNews source was recently "encouraged" to resign due to concerns about the veracity of his reporting. The media gods decided that was not punishment enough, so now there is going to be some sort of massive inquiry into Kelley's entire body of work.

Here's where the love comes in: it was an "anonymous internal complaint" that started this whole ball rolling, and apparently several of Kelley's coworkers at USA Today were so certain of his big fat liar status that they have been keeping "dossiers" on him for nearly a decade.

Ascent of USA Today Reporter Stumbled on Colleagues' Doubts | NY Times

Other surprisingly interesting things we learned from today's Times Business Section: CBS Chairman Les Moonves recently promised to get a "mullet haircut" if his network did not bring Survivor back next fall, and you can buy the Beastie Boys' former (failed) record company, Grand Royal, here.