What is funny as hell is that an award to honor fearless reporting is named for a reporter who invented a completely bogus WW II history for himself as an ace fighter pilot.
Polk cut a dashing figure as a newsman, but he also cut out the real story of his World War II service as a naval officer and replaced it with a huge fraud. He deserves to join the growing roster of American journalists whose dishonesty has gravely injured their profession.
Dan Rather was not the first newsman to fake military records, and won't be the last.
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