Deconstructing journalism superheroes

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If you thought Jonah Lehrer was bad — and Jayson Blair was worse — then what about that Clark Kent guy? Ed Yong reviews the mild-mannered reporter's many misdeeds in a post on his Not Exactly Rocket Science blog: "He regularly reports about himself without disclosing as much. He deceives his employers by moonlighting during working hours as a doer of derring, leaping his contractual obligations in a single bound." And how about Lois Lane's affair with her best source?

July 5, 2012

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