Jonah Lehrer apologized for plagiarism, fabrication and other
ethical lapses in his articles and books at a Knight Foundation lunch.
Then the
Knight Foundation apologized for paying Lehrer $20,000 to speak at that lunch even though it
invited Lehrer after he had already lost jobs with The New Yorker and Wired for repeatedly misrepresenting his work as original.
“Controversial speakers should have platforms, but Knight Foundation should not have put itself into a position tantamount to rewarding people who have violated the basic tenets of journalism. It was simply not something Knight Foundation, given our values, should have paid.”
Said
a Knight Foundation spokesman:
“Controversial speakers should have platforms, but Knight Foundation should not have put itself into a position tantamount to rewarding people who have violated the basic tenets of journalism. It was simply not something Knight Foundation, given our values, should have paid.”
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