journalismism
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MarketWatch media columnist
Jon Friedman remembered recently that there was this young fellow who worked for the
Times once who got in trouble for making things up and lying. It was a bit of a scandal! It happened five years ago this... season, so Friedman asks a couple folk what they think of the current state of media ethics.
Salon's Joan Walsh says the
Jayson Blair (for that was the fabricator's name) scandal forced writers and editors to remind themselves not to lie, or to maybe fact-check once in a while.
Editor & Publisher's Greg Mitchell says the scandal encouraged more papers to issue corrections more often and not plagiarize so much. But a couple critics note that Jayson Blair is really the
least of the newsmedia's woes in 2008.
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