...the Star skirted around the edges of these editorial principles by rushing into print, without anything but a last-minute attempt to get Ford and his people to tell their side of the story. It allowed at least two anonymous sources, both drug dealers, to attack a prominent individual without managing to get the other side. It did not explain why the sources were granted anonymity, or what their motive was to video a customer smoking their product. There was time to do all of that in the two weeks the paper has known about the video.
EYE ON A CRAZY PLANET
Saw that article. Tarek Fatah tweeted it out earlier. Recently the Star journalists had to undergo training on ethics:
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