Item: Va. Reporter Fired Over Fabrications

RICHMOND, Va. -- The Richmond Times-Dispatch said Saturday it fired a reporter for fabricating part of a story and has begun investigating his other work.

Paul Bradley, 51, who worked in the newspaper's northern Virginia bureau, was dismissed Friday, the newspaper reported.

At this point, after Stephen Glass, Jayson Blair, and several other reporters caught making stuff up over the past several years, shouldn't the default thought for every reporter be, "If I make it up, I'll get caught?"