A very respectable news anchor in the US aired some memos supposedly written by a presidential candidate's superior officer in the 1970s. Upon investigation, i

A very respectable news anchor in the US aired some memos supposedly written by a presidential candidate's superior officer in the 1970s. Upon investigation, it was discovered the memos were written in Microsoft Word using the default settings, and probably run through a fax machine or copier a few times to make them look "old". They were most definitely not typed on a 1970s era typewriter. Once this was pointed out, it took the aforementioned newsman a week before he was forced to conclude the memos were inauthentic. The exact statement used was "fake but accurate". The "fake but accurate" standard for journalism is problematic. Either show us the real thing, or describe to us the real thing and explain why you can't show it. Trying to slide by with carefully staged shots ends up looking really bad, and costs the organizations a ton of credibility.