The external committee of inquiry into the stories of Allegiance journalist Perdiep Ramesar said Saturday the report made public. The findings speak for itself: the newspaper pulls 126 articles written by Ramesar.
The independent committee concludes that Ramesar, who in May 2007 was employed to November in True , a ‘inexplicably large number of non-traceable sources’ is used. What are the main conclusions from the report (pdf)?
1. Sources that do not exist
Ramesar has stepped into its pieces and quoted people who do not appear to exist. The committee speaks of a “journalistic mortal sin.”
2. Anonymous sources
The journalist also made frequent use of anonymous sources, something that journalists do more often as the only way to get a story published. It is common that the source is known to the chief or the chief editors.
The researchers committee can not verify whether all those anonymous sources really exist. “The only one who clarification can surrender, the author of the piece itself, has no answer to that,” says Egbert Myjer, former judge of the European Court and Vice Chairman of the Press Council Saturday in Wedding . Ramesar did not contribute to the report and has not responded.
3. Culture
Although Ramesar the only real culprit in this story, the culture on the True -Editorial have created a context in which his conduct could “flourish” says Jeroen Smit, Professor of Journalism.
The controller was not been good, there is insufficient attention to the primary journalistic process. Signals about concerns within the editorial team which reached the editors have not picked up well. “
4. Guidance
According to the researchers, the guidance of leaders within True failed. “The supervision of the functioning Ramesar remote in time on his one-man station in The Hague was not enough,” says the report.
In 2009, Ramesar got top chefs in the editorial pointed out sloppy resource use.
5. Examples
The much-discussed story Ramesar about “Sharia triangle ‘where radical Muslims would be the standard, in the Schilderswijk (May 2013) caused a stir. But this story is strong doubt on the committee. The article contains many fictitious and untraceable sources.
Also, a story about a Muslim woman who had traveled to Syria, which was published in March, appears to be made up. As an article from 2011 about a prostitute who wanted to give her kidney to be reunited with her daughter. The woman is not to trace
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