Newspaper Fires Two - Post

Here's a photographer and writer that had too much of an active hand in their recent story:

The Kalamazoo Gazette has fired a reporter and photographer after they told editors that they had consumed alcohol wile working on a story series about problem drinking among college age adults, the newspaper said.

In that series was a story about a drinking game called 'beer pong,' also was written as if the events occurred in one evening when they actually happened over the course of two evenings, the paper reported. As a part of the reporting for the series, staff writer Craig McCool, 27, and photographer Mairin Chapman, 23, arranged to go to an off-campus apartment where the game was being played.

Both McCool and Chapman did not tell their editors that they had participated in the drinking until after the story was printed on April 17, the newspaper said.