I’m still swamped, but wanted to link up quickly to Patterico’s post on the LAT’s admission that a recent article they wrote on a 1994 attack on murdered rapper Tupac Shakur was based on, in part … fabricated documents.
And news outlets still wonder why so many have become skeptical of what they report?





Howie Kurtz has the whole sad story in the Post.
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Ironically, the smoking gun was the reverse of what happened to Dan Rather, as Howie Kurtz explains:
Haven’t journalists learned (a) that when a story seems to good to be true, it probably is (except, I suppose when Elliot Spitzer is involved) and (b) to pay as much attention to the look and feel of the “document” as they do to its text.
Comment by Leslie @ 3/27/2008 - 11:20 am