Media ethics?

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Earlier this year, it was the New York Times, now it's the Swiss press that has been duped by works of pure fiction--most recently a five-part "interview" with the Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger.

"Blick" newspaper admitted that the Jagger exclusive was a mixture of old material and sheer invention from a German freelance journalist. The author never spoke to the rock legend, but merely recycled quotes from old interviews, adding in a few made-up details to spice up the articles.

A tete-a-tete with Colombian pop diva, Shakira, which appeared in the Blick in March, was also fabricated.

Other publications, including the high-brow "NZZ am Sonntag" and the broadsheet "SonntagsZeitung" have also unwittingly published fabricated stories.

Peter Studer...

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