Jornalismo Digital

A propósito da polémica criada pela situação do antigo jornalista do New York Times, Jason Blair (acusado de ter fabricado informações e testemunhos), encontrei hoje um artigo que me pareceu interessante e que expressa a preocupação de alguns jornalistas norte-americanos (e não só, talvez):

I talked with Chris Pinpin. Wrote his name, showed it to him. He nodded. Pinpin is 60, a retired security guard from San Jose. We talked about the theory of fish pain.
I talked with Anthony Blanco, 28, a butcher from Santa Cruz, and then Sam Paris, 70, a retired mechanic from Santa Cruz.
And I talked to others.
But as I was walking back to my car, I had this weird feeling,
``What if my editors decide to try to find all the people I talked to?''
In my post-Jayson Blair mind, I thought, ``What if they can't find them?''
I could see it now. An announcement in the paper: ``We double-checked Dennis Rockstroh's fishy column and could not confirm the existence of Chris Pinpin, Anthony Blanco, Sam Paris or any of the people he claimed to have talked to.''

Dica de Romenesko.