Johann Hari
Martin Belam on journalists’ reaction to Johann Hari being “forced” to link [http://www.currybet.net/cbet_blog/2012/06/hari-link-footnotes.php]: > Only people in an industry that has habitually avoided linking out to the rest of the web could possibly see adding links and footnotes as a cruel
community management
Image via Wikipedia [http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Johannhari.jpg] Comprehensive account by Tom Morris of how Wikipedia volunteers deal with people who abuse the site [http://blog.tommorris.org/post/10400620996/hari-gate-behind-the-scenes-at-wikipedia] , including Mr Hari: > David r was *banned *in July. Banning is a social measure where
ethics
Journalists Johann Hari has been exposed as using others work in his own without acknowledgement, and maliciously editing Wikipedia.
ethics
So, Mr Hari has admitted to his crimes [http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/johann-hari-admits-plagiarism-and-returns-orwell-prize/s2/a546013/] , and is slinking away for retraining training in journalism. I’ve made no secret of that fact that I think his behaviour fell well below the standards we should expect of journalists, and
Johann Hari
I suspect many of us labouring in the less glamorous trenches of journalism will be feeling a little schadenfreude at the moment. First came the sudden departure of Melanie Phillips [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie_Phillips] from The Spectator, as explained by Prof Greenslade [http://www.guardian.co.uk/