Posted on 05/27/2016 8:30:51 PM PDT by naturalman1975
The Guardian has been hit by a journalism ethics scandal after the newspaper admitted a reporter fabricated interviews and made up quotes in articles.
Lee Glendinning, editor of Guardian US and a former Fairfax Media journalist, said reporter Joseph Mayton also falsely claimed to have been present at events he wrote about.
The former deputy editor of Guardian Australia apologised to readers and to the “people whose words were misrepresented or falsified”.
The newspaper, which was instrumental in campaigning for a British inquiry into press standards, has now removed 13 of contributor Mr Mayton’s articles from its website. Other articles have been amended to remove unreliable material or correct inaccuracies.
Ms Glendinning hired an independent fact-checker to investigate all of Mr Mayton’s prior work, compromising 37 single-byline articles published between 2015 and 2016, seven shared byline stories from the same period, and 20 opinion pieces written from 2009 to 2015.
“In an investigation that included approximately 50 interviews, our fact-checker found articles that contained likely or confirmed fabrication, including stories about two events that organisers said he didn’t attend,” Ms Glendinning wrote.
In an article titled ‘A note to our readers about a reporter who breached our trust’, Ms Glendinning said: “Dozens of sources could not be found — either they had no online presence or they were anonymous and could not be substantiated — and several people quoted in Mayton’s articles either denied speaking with him or giving the quotes attributed to them.”
(Excerpt) Read more at theaustralian.com.au ...
I’m sure the Washington Compost, New York Slimes, or L.A. Slimes will be more than happy to pick him up as a reporter if he slants far left on every article he writes.
Hmmm, MAYTON rearranges to TOY MAN.
After seeing his picture......
Well done nothing...they only came out with this because they got caught. The Guardian has a very iffy relationship with the truth!!!
37 single-byline articles published between 2015 and 2016, seven shared byline stories from the same period, and 20 opinion pieces written from 2009 to 2015. "In an investigation that included approximately 50 interviews, our fact-checker found articles that contained likely or confirmed fabrication, including stories about two events that organisers said he didn’t attend," Ms Glendinning wrote... "Dozens of sources could not be found -- either they had no online presence or they were anonymous and could not be substantiated -- and several people quoted in Mayton's articles either denied speaking with him or giving the quotes attributed to them."IOW, either the Guardian has no readership, or the readership are gullible as lemmings.
several people quoted in Mayton’s articles either denied speaking with him or giving the quotes attributed to them.”
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