His fibs have infiltrated the media, and the media should know better
SOME journalistic frauds are big and explosive, like the Jayson Blair scandal. They make headlines and generate a lot of interest, but they do little harm outside the news organizations they affect. For instance, Blair’s fabricated reporting on the D.C. sniper murders did not permanently corrupt the public’s knowledge of the case. It was a big fraud with a big correction, after which everyone-except those of us who make a living writing about the media!-moved on.
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