A New Yorker writer prompts a storm of criticism
Reporters labor hard to find perfect anecdotes and quotes to drive home the points they want their stories to make. At times they may even be tempted to take a shortcut and sweeten material by merging people into composite characters, placing them in colorful circumstances or concocting pithy remarks. But such fabrications, however faithful they may seem to the spirit of a reporter's observations, are violations of the ethics of the craft. Thus, when New Yorker Writer Alastair Reid, 58, admitted last week that he...
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