L A Times Gets It Right
The LA Times fesses up to problems with some recent stories about hazing at Cal State Chico, and takes action:
“… the methods used in reporting the story were substandard. The quotations from anonymous sources and from two named sources, a Mike Rodriguez and a Paul Greene, could not be verified.”
And, after describing five additional factual errors:
“The writer of both articles, Eric Slater, has been dismissed from the staff.”
Give them credit for doing what the New York Times should have done with Jayson Blair. Which news organization do you perceive cares more about getting its reporting right?
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