My commentary students and I spent class yesterday talking about the Greg Mortenson Three Cups of Tea case study, and talk there led to discussion of the Mike Barnicle / Patricia Smith case.
Here’s a link to a great in-depth article about how the Boston Globe dealt with (or didn’t deal with at first) two columnists who fabricated material. The article’s by Howard Kurtz, who was writing for the Washington Post at the time.
(BTW, all of this adds up to a great example of Truth 4 – Nothing’s new — Everything that happens in the past will happen again.)