For reference, Michael Finkel was fired from the New York Times for fabricating a character in a story. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Finkel http://en.w

For reference, Michael Finkel was fired from the New York Times for fabricating a character in a story. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Finkel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Finkel From the description of his book "True Story": http://www.amazon.com/True-Story-Murder-Memoir-Culpa/dp/B002ACPMKO http://www.amazon.com/True-Story-Murder-Memoir-Culpa/dp/B002... In 2002, Finkel, a rising star at the Times, was fired for fabricating a character in a story about child laborers in Africa