Credibility

Ben's tweet last week about his latest story about the Dozier School for Boys was something I needed to hear.

"This story is based on six years of reporting, the review of thousands of documents and interviews with more than 100 people."

It seems like all the talk about journalism lately has been the kind that crops up every few years, when someone makes something up, or makes someone up, nobody catches it, and it gets into print. Jayson Blair, Stephen Glass, and Michael Finkel come to mind.

Now, there's Rolling Stone, and the UVA rape story source problems. And that Stuyvesant High School kid who didn't really make $72 million trading stocks.

So instead of paying attention to that, go read…