I fucking hate this piece of shit

I'm trying to remember. Did he actually get off Scott free? I remember him being confronted but I don't remember him learning his lesson or anything.

He was a piece of shit reporter that continuously manufactured stories and played the part of the Cinderella boy with the great source every single time. He got lucky that McNulty stumbled on him when he called the news and he gained some ground in that, and once he felt his power slipping, he went back to his old ways of manufacturing quotes/stories.

In short, he's a garbage reporter and a worthless piece of shit human being that only cares about himself.

Yes, in the finale he is seen on stage getting some kind of award

this is some big brain shit

McNulty did it because he wanted to prove he was better than everyone else and to strongarm his CoC into paying for the Marlo investigation. It was a matter of principle to him; he was told that the Marlo case would be worked and he found a way to make it happen

Scott did it because he was a survivor in a shrinking pond. He had no talent as a reporter, and he saw his impending doom. He knew he was worthless when he dropped his application to numerous newspapers without so much as a consideration, so he started doing everything in his power, including manufacturing sob stories and quotes, just to survive.

Not even. If you ever get the opportunity to read news stories about an event you have intimate knowledge of, you'll notice how much it distorts to package a narrative. Not even always out of outright dishonesty, but just because it's necessary to trim details and nuances of a complex event into a digestable story, Then you'll start realizing that all news is like this, and for that matter, all of recorded human history is like this.
I think this is actually a pretty common experience, I've heard other people talk about it.

he did. he won the Pulitzer.

The editor who confronted him was demoted, and the reporter that backed him off was transferred to some flyover state

How is what he does today any different any journalist what they do?

He was a prick and a opportunistic asshole, but he did have a feel of the homeless stuff when he went down under a bridge. There are white cunts like this in EVERY place I have worked, absolute suck ups with 0 talent beyond yapping and gabbing.

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It's not, that's why I hate him. I hate the media, and I hate how much power that news media have over the world

He did that just to say that he did it with all honesty. He had no idea how to get a story, nor has he ever attempted. Even when he did that, he couldn't get a straight story out of anyone; he had to make one up as he always does.

I think that scene was put there to cement that he's a garbage reporter

However, it's pretty obvious it's going to come crashing down, the same way it did for famous fabricating journalists. He spends the series finale ready to crack, after realizing his entire career is now contingent on holding up this lie. He's not actually a particularly good liar in the show, his stuff falls apart under scrutiny and he compulsively lies even when there's no need to, the reporter Gus got to look into him easily pulled all his stories apart with just one investigation.
The only reason he got away with it was the bosses wanted him to win a Pulitzer to jumpstart their own careers and get to a bigger paper. As soon as someone starts looking into him who doesn't need him like that he's gonna get exposed.

Gus says to the boss and it's true
>Maybe you win a Pulitzer. Maybe you gotta give it back.

He didn't do shit when he hung around with them. He just shuffled around with his notebook not trying to really learn anything about them. Contrast with the other reporter who ends up befriending Bubbles and does a (real and honest) story about his life, he actually connects with the people there, trying to be authentic. That's the theme of the whole paper storyline, that the Sun has completely disconnected from the city it's based in, both the good and bad journos. That story about Bubbles is about the only story we see done that is really connected to Baltimore. Every other major event in the season goes unreported or unnoticed by the Sun. Like the murder of Prop Joe, the most important and powerful drug lord in the city, gets just a tiny mention of an appliance store owner who was killed. Omar's death doesn't even get in the paper, despite his being a huge figure in the gang world and his death being a seismic shift.

It's in my notes, OP! Every word of what happened IS IN MY FUCKING NOTES!

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True, he was a garbage reporter, he tried and failed to be better.

This dude seemed a bit mary sueish. Are there such direct principled men in the Media? I mean that right there is pretty impossible to believe.

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David Simon’s self insert. Think a more pretentious reporter Rohan Kishibe.

But what about the Dickensian aspect user?

How is he Mary Sue-ish? He's been around the business long enough to know when to smell a rat. At first, he started poking holes here and there in Scott's stories, and eventually started to smell a rat. These senior guys were painted from the very first episode to be extremely anal about details (see him correcting Alma's "evacuate" wording), it's not unreasonable to think that the senior editor could spot a fake sob story here and there. Also, Scott telling him Nereese gave him a literal picture perfect quote was a gigantic red flag that killed Scott on the spot.

His one principle is wanting non-flowery and honest stories. It's not like he's the only one pissed off by the overwritten purple prose and shitty sourcing Scott keeps coming back with.
He does have some flaws in that while he's a good and honest journalist, he's also very disconnected from the city he works in just like the rest of the paper.
Granted as editor it's not his job anymore to chase down stories and the most experienced reporters under him keep getting cut, but he's a little in his own newspaper world, a lot of events in the season that should be reported on go by without him knowing. Some of that isn't his fault, but some of that is him being out of step with Baltimore.

I think the paper story gets better on rewatches as you notice more of the themes and developments, but it's not perfect, mainly as a result of the shortened season I think, if they'd gotten the usual 13 episodes they'd have been able to show more fleshing out and pacing of the characters, as it is we don't get to see much of them other than when they're writing or editing stories. The bosses for instance don't get much humanizing (Scott does, he's never sympathetic but he is humanized), the way antagonists in other plotlines like Burrell do.

>the closing montage has him accepting a journalistic award

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As for the "principled" thing he's not really any different from Daniels or others, folks who have their beliefs and won't bend them. Both get punished for it.

If he ever gets found out, and that's not an unlikely scenario, that's getting stripped from him. Some of the famous journalist fakers he's based on are even namedropped in the season. They all got caught in the end.