Leon Bertoletti (1971)
Cut and Paste Journalism http://www.hicsuntleones.co.uk/2006/01/cut-and-paste-journalism.html, Hic Sunt Leones, 16/01/2006
“A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism.”
Commenting on New Yorker staff writer Alastair Reid's use of composite characters.
p. 65, The interplay of influence: mass media and their publics in news, advertising, politics, Wadsworth series in mass communication, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Karlyn Kohrs Campbell, Edition 2, Wadsworth, 1988.
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