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Saturday, April 12, 2008 --- 32 days ago http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=67&aid=140402
| By Bob Steele Nelson Poynter Scholar for Journalism Values There but for the grace of God. That was the subject line on an e-mail sent by a veteran journalist today to a Poynter listserv for our Ethics Fellows program. This journalist used that time-honored expression to reflect the angst many journalists across the land could be feeling given what has happened at the Los Angeles Times .
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The LA Times has apologized for what appears to be a major journalistic and ethical screw-up. A Los Angeles Times story about a brutal 1994 attack on rap superstar Tupac Shakur was partially based on documents that appear to have been fabricated, the reporter and editor responsible for the story said Wednesday. So reads the papers own mea culpa account detailing the failures that have produced withering criticism. The LA Times Shakur article was challenged by The Smoking Gun Web site, which said the documents were not authentic and that the Times had fallen for a hoax perpetrated by an unsavory, unreliable source. The Los Angeles Times reported that its top editor, Russ Stanton, took the criticisms of the March 17 report very seriously, and he has called for an internal review of the documents and the reporting surrounding the story. And well he should. What went wrong and why? And let me suggest that much of the attention in that internal review should ... |
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