Times reporter lied for four years

I thought some of you might be inter­ested in this:

http://​www​.nytimes​.com/​2​0​0​3​/​0​5​/​1​1​/​n​a​t​i​o​n​a​l​/​1​1​P​A​P​E.html

I know you all *hate* read­ing the Times Online because you have to register and log in but this one is 10 pages long so I can’t post it. And it’s worth it.

A reporter for the New York Times has been lying, blatantly, in art­icles over four years. He resigned on May 1 after an invest­ig­a­tion. He said he was out­side Jes­sica Lynch’s par­ents’ house in Vir­ginia when he was still in New York. He stole from other news­pa­pers. He made up inter­views with gen­er­als. He based descrip­tions of places on details of photos. Edit­ors warned about his vera­city years before and bar a warn­ing, noth­ing happened. The Times is reel­ing. The pro­ject to trace all of his errors and cor­rect the record is enormous. 

As a journ­al­ist and a teacher of journ­al­ism, I find this amaz­ing and out­rageous. Not that he did it, but that he was able to last for FOUR YEARS.