Andrew Beaujon
Sep. 26, 2012
8:28 am
Jonah Lehrer told Los Angeles Magazine's Amy Wallace that reporters following the story of his downfall had abandoned the basic tenets of journalism: "
Despite the avalanche of coverage, he said, I was only the third person to contact him for comment."
That statement presented the media-reporting establishment with an unbearable irony: Had journalists bypassed a basic mechanism of journalism while writing about another journalist's alleged sins?
Part of the problem with looking at something like this is that Lehrer had people speaking on his behalf. His
website lists only contact information for his publisher, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and his speaking agency.
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Laura Shin
Sep. 17, 2012
7:34 am
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Craig Silverman
Sep. 10, 2012
7:10 am
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Julie Moos
Sep. 1, 2012
10:05 am
Longtime science journalist Charles Seife was vaguely familiar with Jonah Lehrer’s work before Wired.com asked him two weeks ago to investigate a sample of blog posts for plagiarism, fabrication and other shortcuts.
“I didn’t have any pre-existing thoughts that this … Read more
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Julie Moos
Aug. 31, 2012
8:45 pm
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Julie Moos
Aug. 31, 2012
8:44 pm
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Craig Silverman
Aug. 21, 2012
8:11 am
Usually after an article of mine is published, I go back and reread it several times over the next 48 hours. This is mostly a masochistic exercise. I cringe over inelegant sentences and other things I failed to see and … Read more
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Jeff Sonderman
Aug. 19, 2012
6:42 pm
WhatIWannaKnow.com |
Michael Moynihan |
Slate
Milton Glaser, the artist best known for inventing the "I ♥ NY" logo, tells interviewer Ryan Kohls
he never said half of what Jonah Lehrer attributed to him in his book "Imagine." He also calls Lehrer's behavior "self-sabotage."
Well, it was so odd the whole thing. First off, I felt so sad for the poor guy. Here he was, his future guaranteed, top of the world working for the New Yorker, writing a book that had already sold 200,000 copies, and he shot himself. How could he have done that knowing it was inevitable he would be discovered? What kind of madness? Why would anybody do that? The self-sabotage to that degree was incomprehensible. I looked back at what I had said and half of it I know I didn’t say. ... If you had modest intelligence, why would you set yourself up for the disaster of your life that would ruin your life forever? He will never recover from this.
Michael Moynihan, the journalist
who first uncovered Lehrer's fabrications in "Imagine,"
corroborates on Twitter: "
A few weeks back, I briefly corresponded with the great Milton Glaser regarding his appearance in Lehrer's Imagine. ...
There was a quote that was supposedly from [Lehrer's] interview w/him that appeared lifted from another source. Glaser told me that while ...
the info was generally correct, he 'believe[d] parts of it were picked up from other articles and parts were not in my voice.' "
Moynihan provided the two quotes by email:
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Craig Silverman
Aug. 15, 2012
2:51 pm
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Craig Silverman and Kelly McBride
Aug. 15, 2012
11:45 am
Editors often call us in a panic. A reader or another journalist has shown them credible evidence that one of their writers has plagiarized the work of others or, more rarely, suggested that sources, quotes or other information are fabricated.… Read more
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