I'm fine with hiring people who have erred before, if the regret looks real. People make mistakes. They should be able to take a new direction. But Hari did di

I'm fine with hiring people who have erred before, if the regret looks real. People make mistakes. They should be able to take a new direction. But Hari did dishonest reporting for a long time and, as David Allen Green writes, was "smearing other journalists in an on-going systemic manner for years". I will remain suspicious of whatever he does as a reporter. In a way: his crime was an abuse of words, and I'll be careful whenever he again works with words. If his crime had been abuse of children, I wouldn't mind him working in construction, or even keeping books, but I'd be careful hiring him as schoolteacher. If he got a job at a bakery, well, I suppose he wouldn't poison anyone, although his work as a reporter was poison.