The deadline is nearing and you are running out of time. You need to get the story in or you are fired. You still need major content in your story. But you don’t have enough time to do it, easy thing to do, plagiarize; make up the facts, make up a quote here or there right? WRONG.
The worst thing you can do in the field of journalism is to plagiarize. This plagiarism can be as little as forgetting to attribute information to as big as making up an entire story. It some cases it seems like this is the easy thing to do.
Its easy because then you can create the perfect scenarios to grab the interest of readers. The minute that a journalist chooses to make up a story is when they go from journalists to fiction writers.
Also by not attributing sources or information it severely damages the whole credibility of not only the story but also the journalists themselves.
Sometimes when they just need one more angle to really beef up the article the temptation is there to create there own truth. But the job of a journalist is to be the link of the knowledge not the creator of it.
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