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Marketplace purchased the story from another non-profit producer (http://www.mylifeistrue.org/ http://www.mylifeistrue.org/). They assumed the original journal
by yajoe 15y ago
Marketplace purchased the story from another non-profit producer (http://www.mylifeistrue.org/ http://www.mylifeistrue.org/). They assumed the original journalists had done the basic due diligence, so blaming marketplace for failing the obvious background checks is a bit unfair. They took accountability for someone else's mistake.
- tsotha 15y agoThat doesn't cut it for me. Media organizations ought to be doing their own reporting, and where they don't they need to be going with reputable organizations with standards and procedures in place to keep this kind of thing from happening.
- sambeau 15y agoAccountability for other people's mistakes is law in commerce. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donoghue_v_Stevenson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donoghue_v_Stevenson