Shafer: Is It Ever OK for Journalists to Lie?

Posted Friday, December 1, 2017 8:07 am

Jack Shafer | Politico

Project Veritas went undercover and got buried in its own muck this week. Although the organization garnered few defenders inside or outside of journalism, its nutty ploy reprised the century-and-half-old debate over the uses of this kind of deception in reporting.

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Shafer: Is It Ever OK for Journalists to Lie?

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