John here is another documented example of a creative er liar for the Ny Slimes, a year ago.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/640122/posts "IMPROPER NARRATIVE TECHNIQUES" AT THE NY TIMES: Times Probe Hitting Road
NY DAILY NEWS ^ | 3/5/02 | Paul Colford's Hot Copy
Posted on 03/05/2002 2:02 AM PST by Liz
Readers of The New York Times may not have heard the last of Michael Finkel.
Two weeks after the paper said Finkel would get no more assignments, because the writer used "improper narrative techniques" in a piece from Africa for The New York Times Magazine, a review of his other articles continues.
According to Finkel, The Times is "sending someone into Haiti and Gaza," areas that figured in two pieces he wrote for the magazine in 2000.
Asked if locales mentioned in Finkel's eight other pieces were being visited as part of an ongoing investigation, Times assistant managing editor Allan Siegal said: "All we can say at this point is that we're using every means necessary to confirm that what we published is correct.
"We don't have further details to offer."
Responding to a question about The Times' fact-checking procedures, Siegal said: "We are certainly studying what we could have done better or differently within the constraints of time and staff size, but for the moment we've reached no conclusions except that the Finkel/Malé article appears to have been a lone aberration."
In the November piece, Finkel's description of Youssouf Male, an African youth who worked on a cocoa plantation, improperly incorporated details learned about other boys in similarly hard circumstances.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/640122/postsInteresting -- thanks, amigo.