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Recently, a small North Carolina newspaper became the news of the week as two reporters and an editor resigned after the writers reportedly faked quotes for a man-on-the-street feature in the newspaper. Allegedly, the reporters used pictures and names from Facebook and made up answers to their questions.
Truthfully, I don’t understand why these reporters would fake such an easy assignment. Get five people, ask them a question, shoot their photo, write down what they say. Easy. The only hard part is coming up with a fresh question to ask each time. That’s what co-workers are for. Sure, it’s a small newspaper that publishes five days per week, but if these reporters can’t do more than this, what else are they not doing right?
permalink | | media | 07/28/2005
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