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He argued that "entrapment is a lame argument" against his journalistic methodology.
My interest in Mahmood's questionable journalistic methodology – the use of subterfuge allied to the creation of elaborate, often costly, fantasy scenarios – was first piqued in 1999 when he "exposed" the Earl of Hardwicke as a drug dealer.
The argument then was that responsible journalists needed to take much more seriously the twin evils of the red-tops' trivialised, salacious editorial content and the dodgy journalistic methodology used to obtain it.
It might be argued that the PCC could add inquiry to its remit so that the process of regulation is more inquisitive and responsive to complaints pointing to ethically and legally problematical patterns of journalistic methodology and publication.
In her letter to Met commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, she also expresses her amazement that his force held a secret inquiry called Operation Canopus into Mahmood's journalistic methodology in the wake of the kidnap trial, but did not contact her.
Online journalism, if that's what you want to call it, hearkens back to an era where writers were not trained in journalistic methodology and newspapers were not part of large publicly owned conglomerates.
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That same day there were articles in other newspapers questioning the methodology and the very basic journalistic shortcomings of the piece, and it was beginning to look like a blatant piece of hate-mongering to some of my listeners.
Motives and methodology are well set out, and the journalistic scenes ring very true – Barton has decades of experience in this field.
Many readers, prompted in part by a protest from the Tesla chief executive, objected to the reporting and methodology of the piece, and said it raised journalistic integrity issues.
The failure to prominently and clearly explain the methodology of the survey used was one of several journalistic lapses that I found in the handling of this story.
"The report contains flawed methodology and applies the lowest imaginable evidentiary standard that barely meets journalistic requirements," the Rwandan government said in an official response.
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