>A long story, but in brief:
>
>For one his of columns, Jacoby rewrote an anomymous email circulating about
>the heroic fate of the people who signed the Declaration of Independence
>(killed, tortured, property destroyed). The email was full of errors, some
>of which Jacoby corrected but some he missed. His article had the same
>form as the email, if slightly different content. For this transgression,
>the Globe suspended him four months.
>
>For a full account see Chatterbox at Slate.
>
>Jacob