Last week, Wired News posted an item stating that a few articles had been removed from its online stores after the publication determined that a writer that had been publishing stories using sources that weren’t who they claimed, or using at least one quote that was said at a previous time, by someone now deceased. A good part of me is amazed that people are surprised these days when they are caught doing something like this. Given the fact that a good amount of what you say and do can end up on the Internet, and that massive amounts of published news and information make a lot of us easily “vettable,” it’s not hard to find something you’re looking for, on the fly.
Kudos to Wired News for standing up here and saying what happened, and let it be a continued lesson to us all to, even in the age of the 1-second news cycle, that we still need to be vigilant.
