Attention Journalists: Serial Fabricator/Republisher Gets Book Deal

No, not Fareed the Faraud although Our Bad Media seem to have him dead to rights, link below.

From Politico:
Jonah Lehrer gets a book deal

Jonah Lehrer, the writer who resigned from The New Yorker after acknowledging that he had fabricated Bob Dylan quotes and republished material from his own columns, has landed a book deal with Portfolio.

Lehrer will co-author "The Digital Mind: How We Think and Behave Differently on Screens," with Shlomo Benartzi for the Penguin Random House imprint. The book is slated for publication in May of next year.

In a statement to The New York Times, Portfolio publisher Adrian Zackheim called Lehrer "one of the most gifted nonfiction writers of his generation."...MORE

Except for, you know, the fictional quotes.
Meanwhile in faux pas news:

Newsweek Corrected 7 of Fareed Zakaria’s Plagiarized Articles; The Washington Post Needs To Do The Same For These 6