Of Course it Happens here

Abstract

Jayson Blair of the New York Times was frequently not where he said he was, an easy trick to pull off with a laptop and a mobile phone. But it has happened in Britain and even before the era of the mobile. In 1984, one newspaper discovered that the Conservative Party Conference in Brighton was being covered from a television set a couple of hundred miles away: the political reporter concerned made it obvious in checking in with the desk that he was not aware that a bomb had gone off.