In 2011 Johann Hari was suspended from The Independent after charges of plagiarism. His plagiarism was mainly through the acts of unattributed quotations in the interviews, by using previously posted quotes in place of the person he interviewed answers. In 2008 he won the Orwell Prize for a piece that he had written previously. This story was later fact checked with his other stories, THE GUARDIAN, THE TELEGRAPH, AND THE WASHINGTON POST. This prize was later taken away from Johann Hari. Though he stood by the article that won the prize he would end up giving it back because he felt bad. Well Johann only made up some quotes where Glass made up everything.
Well this film changed my perspective on journalism in the way that I never thought your fact checking could come from notes and that someone would go that far to get a good story.
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