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Caution on Publishing About Criminal Investigations

In the servile rush to defend every big institution, it might help to consider that publishing about a criminal investigation, while simultaneously writing in the same item about an employee’s administrative suspension, can leave an innocent employee looking like a criminal suspect.

Following up with a ‘clarification’ a day afterward is better than no follow-up, but it still leaves a publisher mired in misleading reporting.

Conflating stories of administrative and criminal actions is a bush-league mistake, and is simply evidence of poor judgment.

Writing deserves more care than that.

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