{"id":28266,"date":"2011-09-16T15:15:23","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T15:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/economist_unethical_journalism-the_depressing_tale_of_johann_hari\/"},"modified":"2011-09-16T15:15:23","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T15:15:23","slug":"economist_unethical_journalism-the_depressing_tale_of_johann_hari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28266","title":{"rendered":"(Economist) Unethical journalism&#8211;The depressing tale of Johann Hari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Readers of the <i>Independent<\/i> were in for a surprise this&#8230; [week on Thursday]: a lengthy apology from that newspaper&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>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\u201d\u201dat the end of the day\u201d\u201da hack is only a hack, and the press already spends too much time talking and thinking about itself.<\/p>\n<p>But something about the weasel wording of Mr Hari&#8217;s apology today sticks in the craw.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/bagehot\/2011\/09\/unethical-journalism\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Readers of the Independent were in for a surprise this&#8230; [week on Thursday]: a lengthy apology from that newspaper&#8217;s star columnist Johann Hari, admitting to plagiarism and the online harrassment of rival journalists (via pseudonymous assaults on their Wikipedia entries),<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28266\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,199,168,89,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-media","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}