Makin’ It Up As They Go

Seems the New York Times had to fire a reporter who exceeded even the Times’ tolerance for sloppy journalism, albeit due to plagiarism rather than egregious factual misstatements. Howard Kurtz’s writeup notes a jaw-dropping figure: “the paper has run 50 corrections on his stories” since 1999. But then, that’s probably nothing compared to some of the paper’s front-page veterans.