The formerly ‘esteemed journalist’ Johann Hari this week issued a second full-and-frank apology following his suspension from The Independent, due to plagiarism and sock puppetry (sabotaging rival journalists’ Wikipedia entries). In his apology, Hari stated;
I did two wrong and stupid things. The first concerns some people I interviewed over the years. When I recorded and typed up any conversation, I found something odd: points that sounded perfectly clear when you heard them being spoken often don’t translate to the page. But I was wrong. An interview isn’t an X-ray of a person’s finest thoughts. It’s a report of an encounter. If you want to add material from elsewhere, there are conventions that let you do that. You ...




















