Their experience of misreporting prompted them to embark on a project investigating where such inaccuracies and exaggeration typically originate.
The demise of Enron, the scale of misreporting at WorldCom and the stockmarket and bond-market collapses they brought with them whetted the public appetite for reform, if not revenge.
Andrew Gilligan, a BBC reporter who made that allegation after a confidential briefing from Kelly, has been accused of misreporting what he had been told.
He asked staff whether they considered behaviour such as taking food or drink without paying, misreporting tips and giving food to friends as theft; results varied.
In Britain, none of the estimates before 2009 corrected for higher than average rates of non-reporting or misreporting by gays or lesbians, according to a paper from Peter Aspinall at the University of Kent.
A country that spent years mismanaging and misreporting its public finances must tighten its belt dramatically for a long time.
It will pay $400m to settle the case, but its former executives may still face charges for misreporting profits so as to fatten their bonuses.
Finally, we show that our results are robust to a battery of sensitivity tests involving functional forms, data sources for the largest countries, methods of interpolating and extrapolating missing data, and dealing with survey misreporting.
Shareholders sued not only the company but the vendors too, claiming that they participated in the fraud, even though they may not have been aware of the misreporting.
On the other hand, reporters do have to be somewhat more careful about mischaracterising experts' views when the experts can very rapidly give such misreporting a lot of publicity.But mostly, what's happening here is simply that traditional reporting is continuing to exist, as one sort of genre, while blogging exists as a form of response or pardes to the original.
The real scandal was only just beginning.A few days after the Lewinsky tapes surfaced in January, the media began to report that the media was misreporting the story.
