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>Indeed, the election of Donald Trump (bankruptcy; alleged groping of women; exaggerations, fabrications, “alternative facts”) gives us a prevaricator in chief who demonizes journalists for daring to expect that a public figure’s actions should have consequences and that his assertions should check out.

Ugh. I can't go a single bloody day without somebody wedging this into a story it is completely irrelevant to.

Can the headline be changed to the article title: "Why Writers Lie (and Plagiarize and Fabricate and Stretch the Truth and...)". It more accurately represents the article than this.
Yeah, the altered headline makes it sound like a dry read on the order of a Wikipedia disambiguation page. Which it very much is not.
The quote "Ours is the only profession in which any transgression, big or small, means the end not of your career at a certain outlet—it means the end of your vocation” made me think that what happens to hoaxsters in journalism in is very similar to what happens to scientists who get caught plagiarizing, falsifying or fabricating. The codes of conduct in many other professions seem to be more forgiving of breaches.
Mildly entertaining read but not sure if it fits HN's "intellectual" requirement.