Jan
11th
11th
recommended : "reckless falshoods"
Ezra Klein’s 2004 article, “Reckless Falsehoods”which compares the reporting at the time to that of the later reporting scandals of Stephen Glass and Jayson Blair:
our lingering fascination with fabricators’ troubled personae has prevented us from devoting an equal amount of attention to cases of journalistic mendacity where the psychological drama was less gripping, but the consequences were infinitely worse. [thebeliever]Someone scanned the whole article. [pdf]

