> Journalists are not private investigators and it's unfair to expect them to be. We don't condemn doctors when the patients they trust falsely report/induce sy

> Journalists are not private investigators and it's unfair to expect them to be. We don't condemn doctors when the patients they trust falsely report/induce symptoms with intent to commit disability fraud. But we do (and should!) expect journalists to issue retractions if they find out something they reported was incorrect.