A call for a return to responsible journalism, perhaps? Senior New York Times editors have resigned over the Jayson Blair scandal.
Blair, if you recall, was the reporter who plagiarized stories, wrote from bylines thousands of miles away from where he was, and just plain invented facts. The Times’ reputation has been taking quite a hit since this scandal came to light, needless to say.
But maybe it’s precisely because the Times is such a high-profile paper, that this will serve as a wake-up call to other publications to clean up their act. With the line between fact and fiction getting blurrier by the day in journalism, it might be a much-needed jolt.