Yikes: Hack-To-Flack Fail; Job-Hunting Tips

He applied with what many found to be—and what he later admitted to be—a supremely arrogant cover letter, excerpted here (the full can be found on the Bad Pitch Blog):

As a journalist for 30 plus years and a newspaper columnist the past 12 at The Kansas City Star, I am eminently qualified to be your public relations specialist — despite no paid experience in public relations.