Wired News, Reuters Photographer Bring Scandal Back To The Frey
The golden rule in journalism, if there even is one: Don’t make shit up. This week, we’ve already witnessed two new media “scandals” involving journalists who did just that. First, Adnan Hajj, a Reuters freelance photographer in Lebanon, decided to make his war photos a little smokier to drive the point home. And now Wired News has revealed that Philip Chien, a space reporter and author, made up a source in at least three stories and was caught trying to fabricate another.
“Tribal Curse Haunts Launch Pad” (June 27, 2006), “NASA Boosts Heart-Monitoring Tech” (July 7, 2006) and “Don’t Flush It — Breathe It” (July 14, 2006), all by Philip Chien, relied in part on quotes and citations from Robert Ash, described in the first two stories as a “space historian” and in the last as an “aeronautical engineer and amateur space historian.”
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