NY Times admits its writer intentionally lied

"The "Corrections" column of the New York Times today contains an extraordinary admission that one of its writers deliberately misrepresented a study and misquoted a source:

• "An article in the Itineraries pages last Tuesday reported about the increasing stress on business travelers, and cited the findings of "Stress in America," an annual survey of the American Psychological Association. That survey found that economic factors were the leading causes of stress levels in 2008,

• but it did not say, as the article did, that "the crisis on Wall Street was the No. 1 cause of anxiety,"

• nor did participants in the survey say they felt most vulnerable to stress "in the office and on a business trip"....

Gawker notes that the writer in question, Paul Burnham Finney, is a freelancer. AT contributor David Paulin wonders

• how much of the NYT is now freelancer-written;

• he suspects quite a lot, given the number of layoffs."

via Lucianne.com

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