I stand by the story. Penenberg, who writes on technology and ecommerce, doesn't know whether Piskora slipped in her reporting, was duped by a slick talker, or made the whole thing up. However, he is sure her story is not based on fact which, he says, is news and his responsibility to report. It's news when someone fakes a story. But that requires journalists to be more careful, he said, to make sure they get all the facts and that they get them right.
Reporters have to change the way they do business on the Net.
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