22 outubro 2002

VITAMEDIAS
Wire Service Says Reporter It Fired Invented His Sources: The Associated Press said yesterday that it could not verify the existence of more than 45 people and a dozen organizations cited in news articles written by a reporter who was fired by The A.P. last month.
The reporter, Christopher Newton, was dismissed on Sept. 16, eight days after the publication of an article on criminal justice statistics that quoted two people — "Ralph Myers" of Stanford University and "Bruce Fenmore of the Institute for Crime and Punishment in Chicago" — who could not be found. A.P. editors found no trace of the institute either.