(Economist) Unethical journalism–The depressing tale of Johann Hari

Readers of the Independent were in for a surprise this… [week on Thursday]: a lengthy apology from that newspaper’s star columnist Johann Hari, admitting to plagiarism and the online harrassment of rival journalists (via pseudonymous assaults on their Wikipedia entries), and announcing that he was off to take a course of journalism training at his own expense.

Allegations of quote-stealing and factual embellishment by Mr Hari have been swirling for months, at first in the blogosphere and then in the mainstream media. I have not posted about the whole sorry saga to date because””at the end of the day””a hack is only a hack, and the press already spends too much time talking and thinking about itself.

But something about the weasel wording of Mr Hari’s apology today sticks in the craw.

Read it all.

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