VITAMEDIAS
Web Article Is Removed; Flaws Cited
The online magazine Salon has removed an article charging Thomas E. White, secretary of the Army, with participating in accounting practices that led to the collapse of Enron while he was vice chairman of Enron Energy Services. [...]
Salon editors removed the article on Tuesday, saying they could "no longer stand by the story in its entirety." Salon editors began investigating the article after an editor at The Financial Times told them that seven paragraphs of Mr. Leopold's article were copied directly from an article in The Financial Times. On Sept. 28, Salon published a correction concerning Mr. Leopold's failure to attribute the material to The Financial Times.
Mr. Leopold said yesterday that he stood by the authenticity of the e-mail message and the facts of his article. He said he was "hung out to dry" by Salon. "There is an enormous amount of political pressure on Salon," he said.