Guess What? People Lie to Reporters

By: Rona Kobell | CJR

Fourteen years ago, a man lied to me. I was a business reporter at The Baltimore Sun. What he told me was not a small lie or a “misstatement,” as he would later claim, but several flat-out fabrications. The man, who told me to call him Dick, said he graduated from MIT. He said he’d fought in Vietnam. He said he’d sold his company to Microsoft for millions of dollars.