At other times, the pressures of editing on a tight deadline and the fundamental belief that a reporter is telling his editor the truth appeared to work in Mr. Kelleys favor. —From a New York Times article on the disgrace of USA Today reporter Jack Kelley

Did it indeed? Just imagine that! An editor not only believing but believing fundamentally that a reporter he employs is telling him the truth! Whatever next? Hasnt The New York Times (or USA Today) ever heard of fact-checkers? Do they think were living back in the days when people were used to easy talk about honor and relationships of trust? Nowadays you dont even get married without signing a pre-nuptial agreement. If you cant trust your wife or husband, what hope is there of trusting a newspaper reporter? Yet the more one looks at it the more ones conviction grows that there is no hope but in trust. Put up all t ...

This article is available to subscribers and for individual purchase