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[donquixote99]

There are names on the by-line. They get fired if they are shown to have made anything up.

[whell]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

There are names on the by-line. They get fired if they are shown to have made anything up.

Cow manure. Folks like Stephen Glass and Jayson Blair get away with it for years before anything catches up to them. Brian Williams gets recycled from NBC to MSNBC. Fareed Zakaria gets to his own show on CNN as a reward for plagiarism.

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by whell

Cow manure. Folks like Stephen Glass and Jayson Blair get away with it for years before anything catches up to them. Brian Williams gets recycled from NBC to MSNBC. Fareed Zakaria gets to his own show on CNN as a reward for plagiarism.

The culture of ethics I refer to does exist in print journalism. Rarely, clever people evade the system, but the way the way the print journalism industry reacted when the problems were uncovered shows that corruption is not general, as you suggest.

TV news emulates the standards of print journalism, at best, imperfectly.