- 23.2.04 10:32
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Researchers say we're breeding a nation of cheats, scammers, egotists and buck passers. But when researchers interviewed a group of young actors, scientists and journalists, guess who came out looking best?
The data presented in the new book "Making Good: How Young People Cope With Moral Dilemmas at Work," compiled by three researchers and a professor at the Harvard School of Education, got written up in the New York Times last spring, but the paper of record didn't mention how close the authors came to its own wayward Jayson Blair.
Blair, whose plagiarism and multiple fabrications eventually brought down the paper's two top editors, was scheduled to be interviewed by the Harvard researchers before the scandal broke. He never showed up. "He was not alone," they write. "Young journalists proved to be the least reliable of our subjects."