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Posted on: May 14th, 2008
Filed Under: [ Media ] [ Eye Openers ]
Tags: Chile, reporter
The New York Times got a lesson in checking sources when a port security guard in Chile claimed he was the port’s director, according to an editor’s note published Tuesday that revealed the error.
In a March 27 Times story about an infectious virus that is killing salmon in Chile’s salmon farming industry, reporter Alexei Barrionuevo quoted Adolfo Flores, who said he was the director of the Port of Castro, Chile, the note stated. It added that he was “describing bags of fish food stored at the facility by Marine Harvest, a Norwegian company, as containing antibiotics, pigments and hormones.”"*
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