Feagler's Coffee Shoppe was a fake

When Dick Feagler announced at the top of the Forum section front last Sunday that the end of the year would bring the end of his long-running column, disappointment from his many fans was almost palpable. Most of the people I talked to last week, no matter why they had called, noted how much they are going to miss him. That's true of a lot of us.

But a lower-grade disappointment was also evident in the wake of Feagler's acknowledgment that the coffee shop conversations that had become a staple of his commentary were not quite the way he has presented them. The "Coffee Shoppe," as he described it, does not exist. The conversations he recounted were portrayals of real conversations with real people, but had rarely happened as he related them: a bunch of guys sitting around a coffee shop.

Blog Note: Feagler wrote a column for a while for the Beacon Journal.

C;lick on the headline to read the explanation by Ted Diadiun, the PD ombudsman.

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